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

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.

From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.

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.

It might be marvelous to be a man - then I could stop worrying about what's fair to women and just cheerfully assume I was superior, and that they had all been born to iron my shirts. Better still, I could be an Irish man - then I would have all the privileges of being male without giving up the right to be wayward, temperamental and an appealing minority.

[On Malcolm Muggeridge:] He thinks he was knocked off his horse by God, like St. Paul on the road to Damascus. His critics think he simply fell off it from old age.

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