Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone

In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime

Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with one man

Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shoptalk of the scientist and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same