" Do go in for cosmetics in a serious way. Not any old cream, but the right creams. The right coiffure too, and the right nail polish, and all the other beauty tricks that make you feel elegant. This is the kind of pampering that pays.

There are other good kinds: a glass of sherry and an extra special dinner charmingly served on a night when you're tired and all alone; bath salts in your tub and toilet-water afterward; a new and spicy book when you're spending an evening in bed; a trim little cotton frock that flatters you on an odd morning when you decide to be violently domestic. The notion that 'it doesn't matter because nobody sees you', with the dull meals and dispirited clothes that follow in its wake, has done more damage than all the floods of springtime. "

― , Live Alone and Like It