"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."

"Le monde des èmotions qu’on nomme, á la lègére, physiques."

"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."

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