It's this no-nonsense side of women that is pleasant to deal with. They are the real sportsmen.

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.

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.

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.

In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.

Relations are errors that Nature makes. / Your spouse you can put on the shelf. / But your friends, dear friends, are the quaint mistakes / You always commit yourself.

Sons do not need you. They are always out of your reach, Walking strange waters.