In spite of what anyone says it’s women who make the rules.

In spite of what anyone says it’s women who make the rules.

We live alone in our cluttered psyches, possessed by our entrenched beliefs, our fatuous desires, our endless contradictions - and like it or not we have to put up with this in one another.

Autumn can be glorious but menacing too - the long shadows, brisk winds, scurrying leaves, impending frost.

We are all mediums for our own basic truths. All we really have in life is the primal force that moves us through our days – our unvarnished, untutored, ever-present, inborn agency.

Life has a way of taking its toll on the person you thought you were.

There are lots of reasons why a woman stays with a man, even when she's given up on changing him and can predict with certainty the shape that the rest of her life with him is going to take.