What's for dinner is the only question many husbands ask their wives, and the only one to which they care about the answer.

Humiliation is a vast country of imprecise boundaries. If you think you're there, you are. The neurotic rule: when in doubt, go ahead and feel humiliated.

When their children fail to charm others, few parents can stay neutral.

Puritans will never believe it, but life is full of disagreeable things that aren't even good for you.

Men really prefer reasonably attractive women; they go after the sensational ones to impress other men.

A perfect marriage is one in which "I'm sorry" is said just often enough.

Men gossip less than women, but mean it.