The thing to remember about fathers is, they're men. A girl has to keep it in mind: They are dragon seekers, bent on improbable rescues. Scratch any father, you find someone chock - full of qualms and romantic terrors, believing change is a threat - like your first shoes with heels on, like your first bicycle I took such months to get.

It is the leisured, I have noticed, who rebel the most at an interruption of routine.

Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our appetite for it is not as avid as a man s. It is in the boys gyms, the college fraternity houses, the club locker rooms, the paneled offices of business that gossip reaches its luxuriant flower.

People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.

A lover would find life less broken apart after a misguided love affair if they could feel that they had been sinful rather than foolish.

Time is the thief you cannot banish.

Cocktail parties ... are usually not parties at all but mass ceremonials designed to clear up at one great stroke a wealth of obligations.