A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.

The real essence of any marriage that has struggled, however unsuccessfully, towards happiness, lies in the growth of a wordless understanding that what is acceptable to one partner will be acceptable to the other.

I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the wrong light to the entire world because they will say that I could have prevented it.

I'm not a beautiful woman. I'm nothing to look at, so the only thing I can do is dress better than anyone else.

I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.

There can be nothing more baffling in a human relationship than silence, the dark loom of doubts and questions unexpressed.

I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.