Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.

The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.

I am a woman and my business is to hold things together. My business is to tear them apart.

...I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes.

Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me.

All things come to him who mates.

I was too absorbed to be responsive