Half the human race can change its name and sometimes its nation without suffering — at least half! All women!

There are truths which can kill a nation.

Each day the worst of our faults, our deficiencies, our crimes, the truth of our lives, is stifled under a triple layer of forgetfulness, death and the ordinary course of justice.

Death is the next step after the pension-it's perpetual retirement without pay.

Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.

There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon.

I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.