"Women, like princes, find few real friends."
"They improvidentially piped growing volumes of sewage into the sea, the healing virtues of which were advertised on every railway station." Robert Arthur Talbot - Gascoyne-Cecil Salisbury
"The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace."
"To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them."
"There's one good kind of writer—a dead one."
"All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad, or peculiar." Grace Goodside Paley