I sing Connecticut, her charms / Of rivers, orchards, blossoming ridges. / I sing her gardens, fences, farms, / Spiders and midges.

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

If childhood is still a state, it is now chiefly a state of confusion.

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

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

I am he / Who champions total liberty - / Intolerance being, ma'am, a state / No tolerant man can tolerate.

Those wearing Tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.