The wind of change, whatever it is, blows most freely through an open mind.

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

The case against censoring anything is absolute: ... nothing that could be censored can be so bad in its effects, in the long run, as censorship itself.

In our society mothers take the place elsewhere occupied by the Fates, the System, Negroes, Communism or Reactionary Imperialist Plots; mothers go on getting blamed until they're eighty, but shouldn't take it personally.

An office party is not, as is sometimes supposed, the Managing Director's chance to kiss the tea-girl. It is the tea-girl's chance to kiss the Managing Director (however bizarre an ambition this may seem to anyone who has seen the Managing Director face on).

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

It is a pity that so often the only way to treat girls like people seems to be to treat them like boys.