Man might have identified fire, but women identified the way to enjoy with it.

It was ironic, but when you scratched the surface, most successful men were working for one thing only--to retire--and the sooner the better. Whereas women were the complete opposite. She had never heard a woman say she was working so she could retire to a desert island or to live on a boat. It was probably, she thought, because most women didn't think they deserved to do nothing.

- I don't want to be a writer so I can write about my life. I want to be a writer to escape from it. + Then you shouldn't be a writer.

When you're alone, it's easier," she said a little wistfully. "You can do what you want. You don't have to go home.

At first, being with Sebastian was like being in the middle of the best dream I'd ever had - but now it mostly feels exhausting. I'm up one minute and down the next; questioning what I say and do. Even questioning my sanity.

Why do I keep evading my work? Is it because I’m afraid of being confronted by my lack of abilities?

What I have yet to see is a real woman choose a younger man because he spent six hours a day at the gym trying to sculpt his abs.