"Now Hilda, she was your bog standard old woman."

"Comin' to Shady Park is like a freak show, there's some respectable women, and there some freak hoes"

"In this matter, I am a woman, and so I wish ever to remain."

"A pale sun poked impudent marmalade fingers through the grizzled lattice glass, and sent the shadows scurry…"

"I never go outside unless I look like Joan Crawford the movie star. If you want to see the girl next door, …"

"My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth."

"Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed."