You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

As you get older, you don't get wiser. You get irritable.

I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.

Anna was saying to herself: why do I always have this awful need to make other people see things as I do? It's childish, why should they? What it amounts to is that I'm scared of being alone in what I feel.

There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.

I don't think San Francisco needs defending. I never meet anyone who doesn't love the place, Americans or others.