17 quotes found
“In our circle, stress was a valuable status marker: I stress, therefore I am.”
“The bar is masculine, and women must adopt traditionally masculine characteristics cultivated insensitivity, goal-orientated thinking, the prioritising of the material to compete.”
“Repudiating the vulnerability I felt had wrecked the lives of women around me, I modelled myself on my controlled father. I wanted his freedom and his focus. To him, a family was an aquarium: contr...”
“My generation was, in effect, the product of a social experiment. If we did not understand marital intimacy, it was because we had not seen it modelled. We lurched from relationship to relationship...”
“It is only through my daughter that I have come to realise that a life without femininity devoid of mystery, emotion, gentleness and the unerring power of a womans love is no life at all.”
“There were times when I would sob until I shook, until my eyelids were so swollen that it pained me to open them, and through hiccoughs, trembling, I would hiss, dont touch me! as he moved to place...”
“For years, I worked seven-day weeks, through birthdays and most public holidays, Christmases and New Years Eves included. I worked mornings and afternoons, resuming work after dinner. I remember fe...”
“Marriage is never static. There are peaks and troughs, cycles. It is easy to forget that this shifting landscape is really only ever a reflection of the self. Our capacity for attachment determines...”
“This human need for mysticism surrender to an unknown truth, union stands at the helm of all romantic feeling. It is, in essence, the same intimacy known in a mothers arms; in those who are depri...”
“Our culture is now one of masculine triumphalism, in which transhistorically feminine expressions empathy, sweetness, volubility, warmth are seen as impediments to a womans professional trajector...”
“On first hearing that little voice as fine and friable, I felt, as cotton thread, the impact on my soul was that of the highest magnitude of earthquake, those that occur every hundred years, say, ...”
“Delirious as it can be, sex is only one kind of intimacy, and yet has become the cultural catchment area for all kinds of needs because our understanding of intimacy is so poor. Brutal work schedul...”
“We watched each other evolve into parents, with all the fear, rage and confusion evolution can involve. Our eight-year-old is the incarnation of our union; we are forever fused by her blood. My old...”
“My handsome husband and I didnt make love for almost six months. I was enraptured, lost to my old life, and, in this obsession, disregarded author Ayelet Waldman who famously wrote of her 'smug we...”
“This human need for mysticism – surrender to an unknown truth, union – stands at the helm of all romantic feeling. It is, in essence, the same intimacy known in a mother’s arms; in those who are de...”
“On first hearing that little voice – as fine and friable, I felt, as cotton thread, the impact on my soul was that of the highest magnitude of earthquake, those that occur every hundred years, say,...”
“My handsome husband and I didn’t make love for almost six months. I was enraptured, lost to my old life, and, in this obsession, disregarded author Ayelet Waldman – who famously wrote of her 'smug ...”
