I think being a woman is like being Irish... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the time.

There was something factitious and brittle and thereby utterly feminine about her charm which made me want to crush her, even to crunch her. She had a slight cast in one eye which gives her gaze a strange concentrated intensity. Her eyes sparkle, almost as if they were actually emitting sparks. She is electric. And she could run faster in very high-heeled shoes than any girl I ever met.

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.

The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea.

I was born Katie O’Reilly,” she began. “Poor Irish, but proud of it. I boarded the Titanic at Queenstown as a third class passenger with nothing more than the clothes on my back. And the law at my heels.” Titanic Rhapsody