If you want to be a dear old lady at seventy you have to begin early, say about seventeen..
It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle with….
I think that’s what Toni Morrison and Alice Walker understand, the secret language of women. That it’s not a secret at all; men just don’t know how t….
Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing..
We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to bi….
I fear nothing so much as a man who is witty all day long..
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible..
I don't visit my parents often because Delta Airlines won't wait in the yard while I run in..
No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair..
When a man meets catastrophe on the road, he looks in his purse, but a woman looks in her mirror..
Indeed, it is that ambiguity and ambivalence which often is so puzzling in women.
Women, ever since there have been women, have had a way of being people..
Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them.
No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion..
I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal..
If the world was taking care of women, women would take care of the world..
A friend and I flew south with our children. During the week we spent together I took off my shoes, let down my hair, took apart my psyche, cleaned t….
There are a lot of women who live with pot-bellied pigs..
I had long since given up trying to extract from a woman as it were the square root of her unknown quantity, the mystery of which a mere introduction….
We were idealists. We thought that when we got the vote the whole pattern of politics would be greatly improved and would be dominated by women..
Nature endows woman alternately with a particular strength which helps her to suffer and a weakness which counsels her to be resigned..