Men have two basic needs. Neither of them, no matter what they say, is sex. They need love and they need work. And work takes priority over love. If a woman could know only one fact about men and work, it should be that work is the most seductive mistress most men ever have.

Sex and love are like tea and milk. They can be mixed or they can be taken straight. Each has certain distinctive characteristics, but when they are combined they form a unique substance.

The best of all possible marriages is a seesaw in which first one, then the other partner is dominant.

I've enjoyed the pleasures of working since I was 12 and earned all my own spending money since I was 14.

Women who are confident of their abilities are more likely to succeed than those who lack confidence, even though the latter may be much more competent and talented and industrious.

Some men are self-made, but most are the revised work of a wife and children.

The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know; it judges us by what we have.