She couldn't survey the wreck of the world with an air of casual unconcern.

[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.

Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.

Make up your mind to this. If you are different, you are isolated, not only from people of your own age but from those of your parents' generation and from your children's generation too. They'll never understand you and they'll be shocked no matter what you do. But your grandparents would probably be proud of you and say: 'Theres a chip off the old block,' and your grandchildren will sigh enviously and say: 'What an old rip Grandma must have been!' and they'll try to be like you.

The usual masculine dissillusionment is discovering that a woman has a brain

Crackers are short on sparkle.

The happiest days are when babies come.