Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.

Cynic' is the sentimentalist's name for the realist.

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

Male friends do not always face each other; they stand side by side, facing the world.

Whether deliberately, unconsciously or accidentally, she seems to have composed her own life so that its fitful, rudderless, and self-doubting first half was alchemized into gold when the austere bluestocking became the fallen woman.

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.

One hires lawyers as on hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one's hands off the beastly drains.