Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

For women like me, integrity isn't chastity, it isn't fidelity, it isn't any of the old words. Integrity is the orgasm. That is something I haven't any control over.

Free women," said Anna, wryly. She added, with an anger new to Molly, so that she earned another quick scrutinizing glance from her friend: "They still define us in terms of relationships with men, even the best of them.

He destroyed in her the knowing, doubting, sophisticated Ella, and again and again he put her intelligence to sleep, and with her willing connivance, so that she floated darkly on her love for him, on her naivety, which is another word for a spontaneous creative faith. And when his own distrust of himself destroyed this woman-in-love, so that she began thinking, she would fight to return to naivety.

We do not know which of our silver products will be judged as gold by our successors, nor does it matter.

I'm always astounded at the way we automatically look at what divides and separates us. We never look at what people have in common.

How boring these emotions are that we're caught in and can't get free of, no matter how much we want to.