Women were complicated creatures. Any man who thought he had one figured out simply wasn't paying attention.
How to put this feeling, this certainty, into something as limited as words?
You're so far off base this time you can't even see the base!
Fear and bigotry don’t need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes.
We don't go to the ocean for anything as simple as happiness, do we? We go there to feel alive. Like life, the ocean holds chance and change, grief and terror and beauty. It promises mortality, not peace.
Bleeding isn't optional for most of us.