Father says hot water can be as stimulating as an alcoholic drink and though I never come by one...I can well believe it.

There is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love.

The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate.

Was I the only woman in the world who, at my age - and after a lifetime of quite rampant independence - still did not quite feel grown up?

It's odd how different a house feels when one is alone in it. It makes it easier to think rather private thoughts.

Like many other much-loved humans, they believed that they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them.