"One night some short weeks ago, for the first time in her not always happy life, Marilyn Monroe's soul sat down alone to a quiet supper from which it did not rise."

"If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race."

"The 'public' scares me, but people I trust."

"Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers."

"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind."

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."