Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

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

Hats divide generally into three classes: offensive hats, defensive hats, and shrapnel.

Being young is not having any money; being young is not minding not having any money.

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?

It's a pity more men are not bastards by birth instead of vocation.

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.