But to be quite oneself one must first waste a little time.
Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
Sacrificers ... are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those that they sacrifice. Oh, the sacrificers, they get it both ways. A person knows themselves that they're able to do without.
...there must be something she wanted; and that therefore she was no lady.
Dialogue should show the relationships among people.
Darling, I don't want you; I've got no place for you; I only want what you give. I don't want the whole of anyone.... What you want is the whole of me-isn't it, isn't it?-and the whole of me isn't there for anybody. In that full sense you want me I don't exist.