I was a long time learning that wisdom and experience are things apart; that to taste life is not to be confused with understanding what life is really all about.

I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.

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.

A marriage, even one that goes awry, generates claims and needs that persist like an afterglow long after the emotional fire is burned out.

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.

Never explain, never complain.

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.