“Is this better or worse than being married and living in the suburbs? Better or worse? Who can tell?”

“Better alone than badly accompanied.”

“Some secrets are better left at that -as secrets.”

“That's the difference between girls and women: Girls find men fascinating. Women know better.”

“So much of being a woman is telling lies”

“The heart wants what the heart wants," she says, somewhat cryptically. I purse my lips in disapproval. "You'd think the heart would know better.”

“It was ironic, but when you scratched the surface, most successful men were working for one thing only--to retire--and the sooner the better. Whereas women were the complete opposite. She had never heard a woman say she was working so she could retire to a desert island or to live on a boat. It was probably, she thought, because most women didn't think they deserved to do nothing.”