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

Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.

I have a great desire to make people smile - not laugh. Laughter is too aggressive. People bare their teeth.

sooner or later I do what I want to do.

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.

You look for one thing and you find another.

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.