Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.

The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion.

. . . a relationship has a momentum, it must change and develop, and will tend to move toward the point of greatest commitment.

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

Normal is absolutely my least favorite word.

Shifting problems is the first rule for a long and pleasant life.

Once you are thought selfish, not only are you forgiven a life designed mainly to suit yourself, which in anyone else would appear monstrous, but if an impulse to generosity should by chance overpower you, you will get five times the credit of some poor selfless soul who has been oozing kindness for years.