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I could have spent the rest of my life trying to prove that I was a good girl - but that would have been unfaithful to who I really was

When I looked around at all the woman I knew who’d been married for more than five or ten years, I didn’t see anybody whose lived I envied. Once the romance had faded, these women all seemed to be living in constant service to their husbands

When something ends, let it end

When I was younger, I had wanted to be at the very centre of all action in New York, but I slowly came to realise that there is no one center. The center is everywhere- wherever people are living out their lives. It’s a city with a million centers. Somehow that was even more magical to know

So many girls get married for that same reason. Find something to do with yourself. Gosh, ladies, take up a hobby !

He was a nice man - I said lamely. Good for him. Give him a trophy for it, but don’t marry a man just because he is nice.

You must learn in life to take things more lightly, my dear. The world is always changing. Leant how to allow for it. Someone makes a promise, and then they break it. A marriage looks strong, and then they divorce. For a while there’s no war, and then there’s another war. If you get too upset about it all, you become a stupid, unhappy person - and where’s the good in that ?

Try not to look so shocked, Vivian. It makes you look simple

In my experience, it’s always important to take a break between catastrophes

I like you, kiddo, and once I like a person, I can only like them always. That’s the rule of my life.

But what’s the use of being twenty years old, if not to make gross errors ?

Even the word “allowance” embarrassed me. I never wanted to hear it again

This was a bold tactic, but desperate times call for desperate measures

Minutes passed, I guess. Thy always do

And why did I follow that fool?
Because I was an idiotic child and at that age, I would have followed a stop sign

I realise now that I always needed somebody to be infatuated with when I was 20 years old, and it didn’t really matter who, apparently

I was far too self-absorbed to be polite