The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.

A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in.

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

The evening passes somehow; I watch television with Nancy, or I write. It is difficult, not having a family, and it is difficult to explain. I always go to bed early. And I am always ready for Monday morning, that time that other people dread.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

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

The self-fulfilled woman is far from reality.