A male usually had made up his mind before you began to talk to him -so why bother?- but a female, because her mind was more supple, was always prepared to become more disappointed in you than she had yet suspected possible.
Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.
It's the work that's important, not the individual who does it.
Small steps to the madhouse still get us there at last
Children are wickeder than adults, they have no sense of restraint.
To consider what other people might say is hardly a good reason to take action or to defer it. You have your own life to live, Iris, and at its end, the only opinion that amounts to anything is that which God bestows