As it has turned out, the whole relationship between men, women and children has tilted, to the disadvantage of women.

All mothers love their own children as best they can, according to their temperament and circumstances, and all mothers should have done better, in their children's eyes, when the going gets tough for the children.

Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men.

Marriage is what happens when one at least of the partners doesn't want the other to get away.

Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can.

Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.

If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.