You can't be a Red if you're married to a civil servant.

Mother's room, and mother's need for privacy become a valuable lesson in respect for other people's rights.

Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them.

She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more bitterly, that young girl's genuine independence, largeness, scope, and courage.

Women often get dropped from memory, and then history.

Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.

Better Counsel comes overnight.