A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not. That poor miserable brat of his is growing up, and I certainly licked the hide off her; and she's seen marriage at its worst, and now she's dreaming about 'supermen' and 'great men'. What is the good of doing anything for them?

Intuition is not infallible; it only seems to be the truth. It is a message which we may interpret wrongly.

I hate Bernard Shaw because he says that life is compromise.

Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic

Why is it every careerist tries to turn his mother into a Madonna--to prove his intellect is a virgin birth, papa had nothing to do with it? It's the sign of the misogynist.

Each Australian is a Ulysses.

Ye want to tell the plain truth all your life, woman, and speak straight; otherwise ye get to seeing double.