Nature has decreed that for what men suffer by having to shave, be killed in battle, and eat the legs of chickens, women make amends by housekeeping, childbirth, and writing all the letters for both of them.

Words were the only net to catch a mood, the only sure weapon against oblivion.

It seemed to her sometimes that the most important thing about marriage was not a home or children or a remedy against sin, but simply there being always an eye to catch.

In childhood the daylight always fails too soon - except when there are going to be fireworks.

It's just as important to marry the right life as the right person.

The importance of the ordinary citizen is very greatly underestimated - not so much by those in authority as by the ordinary citizen himself.

how much of the fun of parenthood lay in watching the children remake, with delighted wonder, one's own discoveries.