It never seems to occur to anybody that some women may not want to find husbands.

However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children, it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire.

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.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

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

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.

Venice is all sea and sculpture.