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“All this will happen because people have neglected the basic lessons of Science, they have gone in for politics and religion and wars instead, and sought out passionate excuses for killing one anot...”
“There were no men in this painting, but it was about men, the kind who caused women to fall. I did not ascribe any intentions to these men. They were like the weather, they didn't have a mind. They...”
“He's lost something, some illusion I used to think was necessary to him. He's come to realize he too is human. Or is this a performance, for my benefit, to show me he's up-to-date? Maybe men should...”
“I wasn't even sure I wanted a man in my life again; by that time I'd exhausted the notion that the answer to a man is another man, and I was out of breath.”
“It isn't chic for women to be drunk. Men drunks are more excusable, more easily absolved, but why? It must be thought they have better reasons.”
“It disturbs me that he can remember some of these things about himself, but not others; that the things he's lost or misplaced exist now only for me. If he's forgotten so much, what have I forgotten?”
“The past isn't quaint while you're in it. Only at a safe distance, later, when you can see it as dcor, not as the shape your life's been squeezed into.”
“Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked; as I never was when I was not one.”
“Im not mad because Im a woman, I say. Im mad because youre an asshole.”
“I am a believer in sensible choices, so different from many of my own. Also in sensible names for children.”
“I used to jog but it's bad for the knees. Too much beta carotene turns you orange, too much calcium gives you kidney stones. Health kills.”
“Things that are falling apart encourage me: whatever else, Im in better shape than they are.”
“I know more about my father than I used to know: I know he wanted to be a pilot in the war but could not, because the work he did was considered essential to the war effort I know he grew up on a f...”
“Home, I think. But it's nowhere I can go back to.”
“I remember my mean mouth, I remember how wise I thought I was. But I was not wise then. Now I am wise.”
“This murdered girl troubles me. After the first shock, nobody at school says much about her. Even Cordelia does not want to talk about her. Its as if this girl has done something shameful, herself,...”
“My parents are like younger, urchinlike brothers and sisters whose faces are dirty and who blurt out humiliating things that can neither be anticipated nor controlled. I sigh and make the best of i...”
“I want my father to be just my father, the way he has always been, not a separate person with an earlier, mythological life of his own. Knowing too much about other people puts you in their power, ...”
“Knowing this secret, being the only one chosen to know, makes me feel important in a way. But its a negative importance, its the importance of a blank sheet of paper. I can know because I dont coun...”
“Im not used to girls, or familiar with their customs. I feel awkward around them, I dont know what to say. I know the unspoken rules of boys, but with girls I sense that I am always on the verge of...”
