There is a peacefulness, an air of reflection, about a rocking-chair that attaches to no other moving object.

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.

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.

Fortunately for the human race, pain, however piercing, is not a lasting emotion. The recollection of happiness lingers, but the consciousness never retains for long the first thrust of tragic loss. The details of daily life crowd in upon the mind.

There can be no summary and dramatic end to a marriage - only a slow and painful unravelling of a tangled skein of threads too stubborn to be broken.

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

You can never be too rich or too thin.