» And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.
» But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.
» My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
» There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.
» In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
» Can it be that chance has made me one of those women so immersed in one man that, whether they are barren or not, they carry with them to the grave the shriveled innocence of an old maid?
» The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.
» Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
» What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
» A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.