I have reason to be shy. I've been hurt plenty.
What broke Mom's heart was realizing that her children knew nothing and cared nothing about the better side of life.
All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic.
Though I was a Catholic, I recognized that Protestant churches had something.
I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow.
I never posed as a saint. I would have slept with a man for nothing if I liked him well enough.