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.

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

I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work done.

I wouldn't say when you've seen one Western you've seen the lot; but when you've seen the lot you get the feeling you've seen one.

It has long been my boast that I can read or eat anything. But unfortunately, although I eat like a Hoover, I read so slowly that I am always on the smart book three years after everyone else has finished.

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