... anybody with the brains and energy to become a teacher ought to want to become something better.

Prostitutes don't sell their bodies, they rent their bodies. Housewives sell their bodies when they get married.

At my age...I'm going to do what I want and I haven't got time for anything else.

Unless you are political or intellectual, events like the Depression are seen as personal events. We thought of the Depression as something that made the pipes freeze; we thought it hit us because Daddy didn't move his taxi stand and because he broke his hip. It was only later I found out it was a national phenomenon.

I never stop to wonder why I'm not like other people. They mystery to me is why more people aren't like me.

Countermovements among racists and sexists and nazifiers are just as relentless as dirt on a coffee table. . . . Every housewife knows that if you don't sooner or later dust . . . the whole place will be dirty again.

Being a mother is a noble status, right? Right. So why does it change when you put 'unwed' or 'welfare' in front of it?