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.

Many beautiful women have been made happy by their own beauty, but no intelligent woman has ever been made happy by her own intelligence.

Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.

We can never at any time absorb more love than we're ready for.

The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore.

Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn't either.

Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.