There's comfort to an awful old dressing-gown a pretty peignoir is powerless to provide, and aging bra elastic, is, I suspect, as near to liberation as most women ever get.

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

Newish friends, if they get ghastly, can be weighed and found wanting, but you'd never do a thing like that to old ones; their terrible habits are just part of the universe.

Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?

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.

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.

Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for it.