Love requires a willingness to die; marriage, a willingness to live.
Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.
When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers - and men, their fathers - all it usually means is that they've decided to allow themselves the same kind of behavior.
Pull yourself together' is seldom said to anyone who can.
Forget about calories - everything makes thin people thinner, and fat people fatter.
We have a terror of seeming to exert ourselves, lest it be noticed that we exerted ourselves and did not succeed.