The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.

London, how could one ever be tired of it?

Sometimes it seems the only accomplishment my education ever bestowed on me was the ability to think in quotations.

World War II put feminism on hold for a long time; the men went away to fight, a lot of women in those years got jobs both in teaching and in factories - at all social levels - which they enjoyed very much. A lot of them were quite happy during the war.

On one thing professionals and amateurs agree: mothers can't win.

You have to be careful what you imagine, because the act of imagining is the act of encouraging yourself to be a certain kind of person.

Our desire to conform is greater than our respect for objective facts.