“The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don’t.”

“The trouble with Marxism is that it takes up too many evenings.”

“I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.”

“When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, when I am in really great trouble, as any one who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink. At the present moment I am eating muffins because I am unhappy. Besides, I am particularly fond of muffins.”

“Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.”

“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.”

“Women try their luck; men risk theirs.”