“Scotsmen, she had occasion to observe, often did have nice knees. Perhaps that was why they insisted upon kilts.”

“There scotsmen must have arses like leather,for while he ate I could see naught beneath his kilts but a pair of rather large balls ," the secretary told him . - philippa”

“The Great Perhaps was upon us, and we were invincible. The plan may have had faults, but we did not.”

“It is often falsely assumed, even by feminists, that sexuality is the enemy of the female who really wants to develop these aspects of her personality, and this is perhaps the most misleading aspect of movements like the National Organization of Women. It was not the insistence upon her sex that weakened the American woman student's desire to make something of her education, but the insistence upon a passive sexual role”

“Why do you insist upon destroying yourself?”

“Listening to Leonard, Madeleine felt impoverished by her happy childhood. She never wondered why she acted the way she did, or what effect her parents had had on her personality. Being fortunate had dulled her powers of observation.”