The sun burnt on, drugging everything with warmth.

The prize I value most was given to me 60 years ago. I was named the girl with the cleanest fingernails.

It seems to me that a mutually beneficial relationship between a man and woman requires the man to be dominant. A sensible woman will allow the man to think he is the most important partner.

I've never been put down by a man, unless I deserved it, and have never felt inferior.

no one had experiences any more, only traumas.

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

Being constantly with children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too small. She couldn't bear to throw them out, but they gave her blisters.