celebratin' New Year's Eve is like eatin' oranges. You got to let go your dignity t' really enjoy 'em.

If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.

Funny, isn't it, how your whole life goes by while you think you're only planning the way you're going to live it?

There is an interesting resemblance in the speeches of dictators, no matter what country they may hail from or what language they may speak.

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded. Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt.

The writer is a writer because he cannot help it. It is a compulsion.

But always, to her, red and green cabbages were to be jade and burgundy, chrysoprase and prophyry. Life has no weapons against a woman like that.