The best revenge is living well without you.

And that's the insult of it, how always it comes back to a woman being a "good" mother in the world's eyes or a "bad" mother, how everything in a woman's life is funneled through her body between her legs.

People who are disenfranchised politically and people who are poor often don't vote. They often don't elect politicians, so the politicians who are supporting them are really being very charitable, because they're not going to give them billions of dollars in campaign funds.

I can't imagine a mental life, a spiritual existence, not inextricably bound up with language of a formal, mediated nature. Telling stories, choosing an appropriate language with which to tell the story: This seems to me quintessentially human, one of the great adventures of our species.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

To be knocked out doesn't mean what it seems. A boxer does not have to get up.

Is there any mystery like who you finally turn out to be.