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.

There are many things in this life capable of throwing people off course - the death of someone close, the loss of income or health, the realisation that cherished hopes cannot always be fulfilled

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.

Emotions weren't like washing. There was no call to peg them out for all the world to view.

What we remember is probably fiction anyway.

no one had experiences any more, only traumas.

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