After all, you can't expect men not to judge by appearances.

nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault.

I was always a feminist, for I liked intellectual revolt as much as I disliked physical violence. On the whole, I think women havelost something precious, but have gained, immeasurably, by the passing of the old order.

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

You look as if you had lived on duty and it hadn't agreed with you.

it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.

But there is, I have learned, no permanent escape from the past. It may be an unrecognized law of our nature that we should be drawn back, inevitably, to the place where we have suffered most.