By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

For it is only framed in space that beauty blooms.

Why is life speeded up so? Why are things so terribly, unbearably precious that you can't enjoy them but can only wait breathless in dread of their going?

The nice thing about really intelligent people is that when you talk with them they make you feel intelligent too.

The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask. I have shed my mask.

there is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.

The ball of rumor and criticism, once it starts rolling, is difficult to stop.