It is the generation of the unemphatic. Steal, kill, lie, fornicate, but beware of indulging with conviction.

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

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

Emotions weren't like washing. There was no call to peg them out for all the world to view.

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.

nothing is so sad as the injustices of old age.

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