Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.
If we don't risk anything, we risk even more.
each of us only feels the torn lining of his own coat and sees the wholeness of the other person's.
My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.
Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?