I see the strongest and the smartest men who have ever lived. . . and these men are pumping gas and waiting tables.
He considers me also a little fragile because artistic. I need to be cared for, like a potted plant.
Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.
When we're young, we like happy endings. When we're a little older, we think happy endings are unrealistic and so we prefer bad but credible endings. When we're older still, we realize happy endings aren't so bad after all.
If he wants to be an asshole, it's a free country. Millions before him have made the same life choice.
Time has not stood still. It has washed over me, washed me away, as if I'm nothing more than a woman of sand, left by a careless child too near the water.
I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.
Nothing is boring if you look at carefully.
Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like. . . Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all.
My taking a seat on the Council of the Fathers caused a desperate fluttering among my ghosts.
I'm glad I was never in a band.