Women have entered the work force . . . partly to express their feelings of self-worth . . . partly because today many families wo...uld not survive without two incomes, partly because they are not at all sure their marriages will last. The day of the husband as permanent meal-ticket is over, a fact most women recognize, however they feel about "women's liberation."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have the greatest aversion to being a candidate on a ticket with a man whose record as an upright public man is to be in questio...n--to be defended from the beginning to the end.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precook...ed out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The eating of a MacDonald's meal is like the reading of Reader's Digest--small, easily digested, carefully processed, carefully cu...t down, abridged. Reader's Digest gives us knowledge that is easily compartmentalized, simplified, ideologically sound.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Reading any collection of a man's quotations is like eating the ingredients that go into a stew instead of cooking them together i...n the pot. You eat all the carrots, then all the potatoes, then the meat. You won't go away hungry, but it's not quite satisfying. Only a biography, or autobiography, gives you the hot meal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any ...more than you can fake a good meal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[T]ea, that uniquely English meal, that unnecessary collation at which no stimulants--neither alcohol nor meat--are served, that c...omforting repast of which to partake is as good as second childhood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »