Natalie Spenser was giving a dinner. She was not an easy hostess.

To the bottle! In infancy, the milk bottle; in our prime, the wine bottle; in our dotage, the pill bottle.

I suppose it is because woman's courage is mental and man's physical, that in times of great strain women always make the better showing.

It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.

pretense is the oil that lubricates society.

Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket.

Men were not equal in the effort they made, nor did equal efforts bring equal result. ... Equality of opportunity, yes. Equality of effort and result, no.