The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name. – Enid Bagnold
If a dog doesnt put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesnt happen you are only keeping an animal. – Enid Bagnold
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. – Enid Bagnold
When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much. – Enid Bagnold
I do not like football, which I think of as a game in which two tractors approach each other from opposite directions and collide. Besides, I have contempt for a game in which players have to wear so much equipment. Men play basketball in their underwear, which seems just right to me. – Anna Quindlen, Living Out Loud, 1988