Pride is what you can afford or think you can afford.

Pride is what you can afford or think you can afford.

It is easier for the reader to judge, by a thousand times, than for the writer to invent. The writer must summon his Idea out of nowhere, and his characters out of nothing, and catch words as they fly, and nail them to the page. The reader has something to go by and somewhere to start from, given to him freely and with great generosity by the writer. And still the reader feels free to find fault.

I like the dry-cleaners. I like the sense of refreshment and renewal. I like the way dirty old torn clothes are dumped, to be returned clean and wholesome in their slippery transparent cases. Better than confesssion any day. Here there is a true sense of rebirth, redemption, salvation.

As it has turned out, the whole relationship between men, women and children has tilted, to the disadvantage of women.

There was no such thing as defeat if you didn't accept it.

There is probably an innate masochism in a lot of women that ends up disappointed if men don't ill-treat them.