“My final thought now is that as in religion and the arts, so in politics; if men do not balance their feelings and intelligence they lose command of both - and worse still, of their object.”

“(the modern writer’s aim is) general revelation by suggestion (and) making a very tiny part do for a whole.”

“At Harvard I learned most uncomfortably that facts are facts. In Italy I learned that facts are the way you look at them.”

“I tried not to think about it. But every so often it would burst out of me - why did he do something so unkind? What had I done to deserve it? I did believe, from my experience of life and of looking at the world, that men hated women. But there were all kinds of exceptions, and I'd have bet everything that this man didn't hate me, this woman.”

“Did anyone ever hear of an intelligent fantasy?”

“I did believe, from my experience of life and of looking at the world, that men hated women.”

“They're fathers second, Jimmy said. They're men first.”