Is there any vanity greater than the vanity of those who believe themselves without it?

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

Normal is absolutely my least favorite word.

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

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

Only a marriage with partners strong enough to risk divorce is strong enough to avoid it.

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