We are all tempted, Mma. We are all tempted when it comes to cake.

Dating is really all about sex. In the conventional context, this means that the man invites the woman to go through a social encounter, the ultimate purpose of which is sexual engagement.

You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel.

There are old mycologists and there are bold mycologists, but there are no old, bold mycologists.

There are many women whose lives would be immeasurably improved by widowhood, but one should not always point that out.

She was made for untidy rooms and rumpled beds.

Antonia was very conscious of the corrosive power of envy and felt that it was this emotion, more than any other, which lay behind human unhappiness. People did not realize how widespread envy was.