Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

A woman can look both moral and exciting - if she also looks as if it were quite a struggle

A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.

It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.

Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature.