Every time a man dies, a child dies too, and an adolescent and a young man as well; everyone weeps for the one who was dear to him.

As soon as a woman re- fuses to be perfectly happy doing housework eight hours a day, society has a tendency to want to do a lobotomy on her.

If women really did have complete equality with men, society would be completely overturned.

Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.

It's only arrogance if you're wrong.

If you haven't been happy very young, you can still be happy later on, but it's much harder. You need more luck.

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.