Every woman needs secrets, ' her mother said with a smile then, her eyes meeting Sally's in the rearview mirror. 'Remember that when you're old like me, pumpkin, because the world has a way of making a woman's life everyone else's business--you have to dig out a little place that's only yours. J. Courtney Sullivan
About This Quote

The quote "Every woman needs secrets" is a reference to the idea that women have a secret place where they go to escape from everything else. This quote can be interpreted as a warning to women to not share their secrets with everyone, because the world always seems to find out about their little secrets.

Source: Commencement

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