Many, if not most, countries blithely expect their citizens to have carte blanche access to the U.S., "land of immigrants," as a veritable human right, but put up all manner of barriers to Americans who want to emigrate in the opposite direction.
You can't be stylish and petty at the same time.
How lucky we are, when we're spared what we think we want!
It's an apathy so absolute that it's like a hole you might fall in.
My own apathy is bone chilling.
I first foreswore motherhood when I was about eight years old. ... [Children] were annoying. We were loud and sneaky and broke things. As an eight-year-old, maybe I was simply mortified by the prospect of being saddled with myself.