“This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it."[Women Know Everything!]”

“There was a reason for the cost of those perfectly plain black dresses.”

“I don't know," she said. "We used to squabble a lot when we were going together and then engaged and everything, but I thought everything would be so different as soon as you were married. And now I feel so sort of strange and everything. I feel so sort of alone.”

“I've never been a millionaire but I know I'd be just darling at it.”

“Women and elephants never forget.”

“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”

“I'll think about something else. I'll just sit quietly. If I could sit still. If I could sit still, maybe I could read. Oh, all the books are about people who love each other, truly and sweetly. What do they want to write about that for? Don't they know it isn't true? Don't they know it's a lie, it's a God-damned lie? What do they have to tell about that for, when they know how it hurts?”