Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.

The difference is great between one's outside "life," the things which happen to one, incidents, pains and pleasures, and one's "living."

The women who do the most work get the least money, and the women who have the most money do the least work.

For men obsessed with women's underwear, a course in washing, ironing and mending is recommended.

Its time we woke up,” pursued Gerald, still inwardly urged to unfamiliar speech. “Women are pretty much people, seems to me. I know they dress like fools - but who’s to blame for that? We invent all those idiotic hats of theirs, and design their crazy fashions, and what’s more, if a woman is courageous enough to wear common-sense clothes - and shoes - which of us wants to dance with her?

While we flatter ourselves that things remain the same, they are changing under our very eyes from year to year, from day to day.

Now why should that man have fainted? But he did,and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!