Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shop-talk of the scientist, and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.

Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!

Behind every myth lies a truth; beyond every legend is reality, as radiant (sometimes as chilling) as the story itself.

These are my daughters, I suppose. But where in the world did the children vanish?

I'm a middle-bracket person with a middle-bracket spouse / And we live together gaily in a middle-bracket house. / We've a fair-to-middlin' family; we take the middle view; / So we're manna sent from heaven to internal revenue.

Women are not men's equals in anything except responsibility. We are not their inferiors, either, or even their superiors. We are quite simply different races.

Those wearing Tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.