It is probably true to say that the largest scope for change still lies in men's attitude to women, and in women's attitude to themselves.

The joys of motherhood are not excessively apparent during the first few weeks of a baby's life.

few things are more rewarding than a child's open uncalculating devotion.

Most men, whether men or women, wish above all else to be comfortable, and thought is a pre-eminently uncomfortable process; it brings to the individual far more suffering than happiness in a semi-civilised world which still goes to war.

belated maternity has had its compensations; small children have a habit of conferring persistent youth upon their parents, and by their eager vitality postpone the unenterprising cautions and timidities of middle age.

The tragedy of journalism lies in its impermanence; the very topicality which gives it brilliance condemns it to an early death. Too often it is a process of flinging bright balloons in the path of the hurricane, a casting of priceless petals upon the rushing surface of a stream.

I know of no place where the wind can be as icy and the damp so penetrating as in Oxford round about Easter time.