It is ridiculous to take on a man's job just in order to be able to say that 'a woman has done it - yah!' The only decent reason for tackling a job is that it is your job and you want to do it.

She reflected she must be completely besotted about Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra.

It is ridiculous to take on a man's job just in order to be able to say that 'a woman has done it - yah!' The only decent reason for tackling a job is that it is your job and you want to do it.

We shall know what things are of overmastering importance when they have overmastered us.

To complain that man measures God by his own experience is a waste of time; man measures everything by his own experience; he has no other yardstick.

When cats sat staring into the fire they were thinking out problems.

I am better off with vegetables at the bottom of my garden than with all the fairies of the Midsummer Night's Dream.