The modern woman is the curse of the universe. A disaster, that's what. She thinks that before her arrival on the scene no woman ever did anything worthwhile before, no woman was ever liberated until her time, no woman really ever amounted to anything.

Woman's work as a listener is never done. ... I thought I'd spent too much of my life listening for some damn man - for my father and now for my husband.

Happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky.

I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.

Death is a door life opens.

A great many of us have confused change with progress.

I think death has a right to its own courage and dignity and self-respect.