On their return from a trip, it is wise to see friends promptly, before they've had time to get their pictures developed.

As millions of women have done before me, I pulled domesticity over my head like a blanket and found I was still cold.

Kitchens were different then, too - not only what came out of them, but their smells and sounds. A hot pie cooling smells different from a frozen pie thawing.

People would have more leisure time if it weren't for all the leisure-time activities that use it up.

forgetting things is what gives old age a bad name, that and old age.

On their return from a trip, it is wise to see friends promptly, before they've had time to get their pictures developed.

When I finally gathered, invented, stole, simplified, borrowed, and found a publisher for a clutch of reasonably foolproof recipes, I learned I had friends I hadn't known about - more proof that a mutual dislike can be quite as sound a basis for friendship as a mutual devotion.