Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

One loses the capacity to grieve as a child grieves, or to rage as a child rages: hotly, despairingly, with tears of passion. One grows up, one becomes civilized, one learns one's manners, and consequently can no longer manage these two functions - sorrow and anger - adequately.

Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.

The self-fulfilled woman is far from reality.

I was brought up among the sort of self-important women who had a husband as one has an alibi.

I am 46, and have been for some time past.