But we disposable women have to be realistic in this life, you know. Else we get itchy and discontented and start contemplating the kitchen knife and wondering whether it wouldn't look nicer between someone's shoulder-blades.

I have never understood why a woman must have a man to take her into dinner.

Society can only hurt if you care for its opinion

No expectations mean there is no risk of disappointment.

It is not always easy, for a woman alone.

Everything about everybody was very soon known by everybody else.

People argue themselves out of their pleasures