Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they've seen it often before.

Nurses - nurses, you'm all the same. Full of cheerfulness over other people's troubles.

I never can stand seeing people pleased with themselves,” said Joanna. “It arouses all my worst instincts.

Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine, without batting an eyelash, and without its impairing their affection for the brute in the least. Women are wonderful realists.

At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true.

there is evil everywhere under the sun.

The heart of a woman who loves will forgive many blows.