"There are men I could spend eternity with. but not this life."
"Changing husbands is only changing troubles."
"When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?"
"Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier."
"Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state."
"If we are lucky, we can give in and rest without feeling guilty. We can stop doing and concentrate on being."
"Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future."
"Life is easier to take than you think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable."