There are moments when the heart is generous, and then it knows that for better or worse our lives are woven together here, one with one another and with the place and all the living things.

Heather Badcock meant no harm. She never did mean harm, but there is no doubt that people like Heather Badcock (and like my old friend Alison Wilde), are capable of doing a lot of harm because they lack - not kindness, they have kindness - but any real consideration for the way their actions may affect other people. She though always of what an action meant to her, never sparing a thought to what it might mean to somebody else.

O men with sisters dear, O men with mothers and wives, It is not linen you 're wearing out, But human creatures' lives!

People tend to criticize their spouse most loudly in the area where they themselves have the deepest emotional need.

We do right enough darling, if we go wrong together.

Women want to talk first, connect first, then have sex. For men, sex is the connection. Sex is man's language of intimacy