it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.

Frankness is usually a euphemism for rudeness.

Nothing can be more puritanical in application than the virtues.

You look for one thing and you find another.

Interviews can be stimulating. It depends on the intelligence of the interviewer.

I never trust the airlines from those countries where the pilots believe in the afterlife. You are safer when they don't.

People who quoted the Scriptures in criticism of others were terrible bores and usually they misapplied the text. One could prove anything against anyone from the Bible.