"My husband and I were very in love, and I had no reason to suspect that his interests lay anywhere else."

"A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain."

"I never thought that I was very intelligent."

"The scandal's so unbelievable that I cannot repeat it here."

"It has never been, and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination."

"On one occasion I shared a bed with about seven other people, but we were all having a party overnight."

"Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision."

"I do tend to lose track since the kids are out of school."

"I've been a schoolteacher. I always try to get the kids to finish talking before the next one starts."

"We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had emotional and friendly relationships with members of their own sex."

"A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that we had a common ancestor on the Mayflower."