One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.

Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.

Some enterprising youth should go from door to door on Christmas morning peddling batteries.

You can't sleep until noon with the proper elan unless you have some legitimate reason for staying up until three (parties don't count).

There is this to be said about having money. You get rejected by a higher class of people.

... it's impossible to register any emotion without using some muscle which, in time, will produce a wrinkle. ... By the time she is thirty, a starlet has been carefully taught to smile like a dead halibut. The eyes widen, the mouth drops open, but the eye muscles are never involved.

I was always the last woman on the last down elevator as the store was closing.