Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with one man.

Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.

Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and trade and to give men their freedom.

The ability to forget a sorrow is childhood's most enchanting feature.

suffering is as necessary to entertaining as vermouth is to a Martini - a small but vital ingredient.

A mother's hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you Ripe on a plate. And while you live, Relentlessly she understands you.

Shunning the upstart shower, / The cold and cursory scrub, / I celebrate the power / That lies within the Tub.