There is satisfaction in seeing one's household prosper; in being both bountiful and provident.

The mass of men live lives of quiet exasperation.

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

Oh, high is the price of parenthood, and daughters may cost you double. You dare not forget, as you thought you could, that youth is a plague and a trouble.

Marriage is a lot of things-an alliance, a sacrament, a comedy, or a mistake; but it is definitely not a partnership because that implies equal gain. And every right-thinking woman knows the profit in matrimony is by all odds hers.

Frigidity is largely nonsense. It is this generation's catchword, one only vaguely understood and constantly misused. Frigid women are few. There is a host of diffident and slow-ripening ones.

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