Education is political.

There is nothing worse than war in the summetime.

She was sitting in a garden more beautiful than even her rampaging imagination could ever have conjured up, and she was being serenaded by trees.

[That] my body be buried as cheaply as possible and no speeches be permitted at my funeral.

What I like about that is it kind of puts you in your place. Don't count on being remembered. Just live now, you know?

I am a worker, a tombstone mason, anxious to pleace averyburies and jully glad when Christmas comes his once ayear.

I had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded - and how pitiful that was.

She looked at me as if for a moment she would seek someone who would understand the dreadful predicament of a woman, in this world ruled by men.

Female ambition is such a complicated thing to play because it is an aggressive quality, and people respond very badly to women exhibiting any kind of aggression.

Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it.