When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

It has long been my boast that I can read or eat anything. But unfortunately, although I eat like a Hoover, I read so slowly that I am always on the smart book three years after everyone else has finished.

Hats divide generally into three classes: offensive hats, defensive hats, and shrapnel.

No nice men are good at getting taxis.

A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.

It beats me how Freud could say "What do women want?" as if we all must want the same thing.