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.

We wake in the night, to stereophonic silence.

Neurotic quarrels always have the same theme-song: Hate me and get it over with.

If only we could be old and sick while we're still young and healthy enough to put up with it!

In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits.

A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species.

Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.