I just wish, when neither of us has written to my husband's mother, I didn't feel so much worse about it than he does.

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

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.

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

No nice men are good at getting taxis.

Whereas a lot of men used to ask for conversation when they really wanted sex, nowadays they often feel obliged to ask for sex even when they really want conversation.

It would be nice to think that a censor could allow a genuine work of artistic seriousness and ban a titillating piece of sadism, but it would take a miracle to make such a distinction stick.