Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
To sleep is an act of faith.
It's the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive - it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. It is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and romance.