All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men.
The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.
Neurosis is no worse than a bad cold; you ache all over, and it's made you a mess, but you won't die from it.
A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.
Money: in its absence, we are coarse; in its presence, we are vulgar.
Beauty often fades, but seldom so swiftly as the joy it gives us.