Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.

I love the smell of a mans skin.

This was how the modern working girl behaved. She didn’t hide her femininity or apologize for it, as they did in the old days. She flaunted it and, having been given more than any woman before her, demanded even more than that.

We don't always do the things our parents want us to do, but it is their mistake if they can't find a way to love us anyway.

Timing was everything when it came to being a woman—the moment you entered the world could seal your fate.

She remembered how she had felt cleaning out her father's clothes, wanting at once to hold on to every dirty handkerchief and musty page of sheet much, and yet wishing she were anywhere else on earth, free of it all.

In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become.