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But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and I might be rivals. We were both working in fiction… so I look back and I see that I consciously vacated the contested ground.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.

I suffered, I really suffered, with all three of my husbands. And I tried damn hard with all three, starting each marriage certain that it was going to last until the end of my life. Yet none of them lasted more than a year or two.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

I can’t be a wife. I’m not that sort of person. Wives have to compromise all the time.