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

It beats me how Freud could say "What do women want?" as if we all must want the same thing.

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.

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).

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.

The main purpose of children's parties is to remind you that there are children more awful than your own.

It would be nice to think that a censor could allow a genuine work of artistic seriousness and ban a titillating piece of sadism, but it would take a miracle to make such a distinction stick.