"There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it i…"

"Nothing ages a woman like living in the country."

"Life as a child and then as a girl had taught her patience, hope, silence; and given her a prisoner's proficiency in …"

"Let’s go out and buy playing-cards, good wine, bridge-scorers, knitting needles—all the paraphernalia to fill a gapin…"

"It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place."

"I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer."

"If one wished to be perfectly sincere, one would have to admit there are two kinds of love—well-fed and ill-fed. The …"

"My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved."

"Can it be that chance has made me one of those women so immersed in one man that, whether they are barren or not, the…"

"When she raises her eyelids it's as if she were taking off all her clothes."