“Good women are rarely clever and clever women are rarely good.”

There is a graveyard in my poor heart – dark, heaped-up graves, from which no flowers spring.

There is no such thing as unfortunate genius; if a man or woman is fit for work, God appoints the field.

Life is a lie, and Love a cheat.

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.

Polite conversation is rarely either.

And I discover that we rarely if ever see the totality of another in ordinary social intercourse.

I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people.

While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.

I am a woman in the prime of my life, with certain powers and those powers severely limited by authorities whose faces I rarely see.

We always reference kids but very rarely ask their opinion.