Revelation is the marriage of knowing and feeling.

What is asserted by a man is an opinion; what is asserted by a woman is opinionated. A woman with ideas and the ability to express them is something of a social embarrassment, like an unhousebroken pet.

In our long and obsessive passion for youth, we have - more than any other modern society - avoided direct approach to age and to dying by denying them in word, in fact, and - above all - in worth.

Flirtation is merely an expression of considered desire coupled with an admission of its impracticability.

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.

A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language.

If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.