“a woman's got as much right -and more cause- to get drunk than any man”
“There is nothing contemptible about an intoxicated man (if it is nothing more than a bookful of words or a roomful of notes that he has got drunk on). ”
“A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.”
“She is sadder and sadder, and for a man there is no balm more soothing than the sadness he has caused a woman.”
“A man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman-- any woman-- with beautiful legs.”
“I know what the right woman, at the right moment, can do to a man- not that Tessie seemed to have got away scot-free herself. Some people should never meet. The fallout spreads too wide and gets into the ground for much too long.”