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

In hell they will bore you, in heaven you will bore them.

And what would happen to my illusion that I am a force for order in the home if I wasn't married to the only man north of the Tiber who is even untidier than I am?

The main purpose of children's parties is to remind you that there are children more awful than your own.

Spring makes everything look filthy.

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.

I am all for people having their heart in the right place; but the right place for a heart is not inside the head.