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.

The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.

We can never understand other people's motives, nor their furniture.

Your money, or your life. We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does.

Life marks us all down, so it's just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves.

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

Not for nothing does the neurotic suffer - but not for anything very much, either.