I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.

Freedom is not choosing; that is merely the move that we make when all is already lost. Freedom is knowing and understanding and respecting things quite other than ourselves.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.

My heart was beating like an army on the march.

emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. in the middle they are acted. this is why all the world is a stage.

There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.