8 quotes found
“The task of being right is a task the father perfects over time.”
“A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail.”
“Together we were something less, which felt like such a relief, to not be ourselves for a while.”
“I would like to outsmart the role that is destined for me. But I can't. I have failed to destroy my category.”
“When a man modifies or adorns a woman's name, or dispatches an endearment into her vicinity, he is attempting at once to alter and deny her, to dilute the privacy of the category she has inherited ...”
“Until the notion of Helmet-Assisted Life catches on with more people, you may be seen as a threat if you wear a helmet during moments of intimacy. Yet it might also be true that relaxed intimacy ca...”
“The American Naming Authority, a collective of women studying the effects of names on behavior, decrees that a name should only have one user. The nearly 1 million American users of the name Mary, ...”
“I prefer men who don't fall down and weep, who absorb a blow, who do not scamper and yell when chased, but stand firm, crouch, square off, meet an attack with something like resistance, even if it ...”
