I've never been put down by a man, unless I deserved it, and have never felt inferior.

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

There is nothing more guaranteed to reduce a man to the essentials than to live beneath the sky.

What we remember is probably fiction anyway.

The prize I value most was given to me 60 years ago. I was named the girl with the cleanest fingernails.

There are many things in this life capable of throwing people off course - the death of someone close, the loss of income or health, the realisation that cherished hopes cannot always be fulfilled

Being constantly with children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too small. She couldn't bear to throw them out, but they gave her blisters.