“Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house. ”

“Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.”

“the real menace in dealing with a 5-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a 5-year-old.”

“If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation. ”

“The thing that worries me is that I'm so different from other writers. Connecticut is just another state to me. And nature - well, nature is just nature. When I see a tree whose leafy mouth is pressed against the earth's sweet flowing breast, I think, 'Well, that's a nice-looking oak,' but it doesn't change my way of life.Now I'm not going to stand here and run down trees and flowers. Personally, I have three snake plants of my own, and in a tearoom I'm the first one to notice the geraniums. But the point is, I keep my head.”

“Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze? ”

“The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.”