Mere wealth, I am above it, / It is the reputation wide, / The playwright's pomp, the poet's pride / That eagerly I covet..

People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick..

Behind every myth lies a truth; beyond every legend is reality, as radiant (sometimes as chilling) as the story itself..

Love or perish" we are told and we tell ourselves. The phrase is true enough so long as we do not interpret it as "Mingle or be a failure..

A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can'….

Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with one man..

Aunts are discreet, a little shy / By instinct. They forbear to pry..

suffering is as necessary to entertaining as vermouth is to a Martini - a small but vital ingredient..

Oh, princes thrive on caviar, the poor on whey and curds, / And politicians, I infer, must eat their windy words. / It's crusts that feed the virtuou….

Women are not men's equals in anything except responsibility. We are not their inferiors, either, or even their superiors. We are quite simply differ….

Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause..

A bookworm in bed with a new novel and a good reading lamp is as much prepared for pleasure as a pretty girl at a college dance..

For the hearts of nurses are solid gold, / But their heels are flat and their hands are cold, / And their voices lilt with a lilt that's falser / Tha….

To be a housewife is a difficult, a wrenching, sometimes an ungrateful job if it is looked on only as a job. Regarded as a profession, it is the nobl….

The saints differ from us in their exuberance, the excess of our human talents. Moderation is not their secret. It is in the wildness of their dreams….

The Enemy, who wears her mother's usual face and confidential tone, has access; doubtless stares into her writing case and listens on the phone..

Children from ten to twenty don't want to be understood. Their whole ambition is to feel strange and alien and misinterpreted so that they can live a….

A mother's hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you Ripe on a plate. And while you live, Relentlessly she understands you..

Frigidity is largely nonsense. It is this generation's catchword, one only vaguely understood and constantly misused. Frigid women are few. There is ….

It is the leisured, I have noticed, who rebel the most at an interruption of routine..

Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and trade and to give men th….