There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.

Email is very informal, a memo. But I find that not signing off or not having a salutation bothers me.

You don't want to look too chic at a Washington party or people will think you don't have a job worth losing.

The simple idea that everyone needs a reasonable amount of challenging work in his or her life, and also a personal life, complete with noncompetitive leisure, has never really taken hold.

We are born charming fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

A small wedding is not necessarily one to which very few people are invited. It is one to which the person you are addressing is not invited.

She only maintains that it is possible, under some circumstances, for a lady to murder her husband; but that a woman who wears ankle-strap shoes and smokes on the street corner, though she may be a joy to all who know her and have devoted her life to charity, could never qualify as a lady.