Love is giving, marriage is buying and selling. You can't put love into a contract.

I'm not senile," I snapped. "If I burn the house down it will be on purpose.

The prospect of his future life stretched before him like a sentence; not a prison sentence but a long-winded sentence with a lot of unnecessary subordinate clauses, as he was soon in the habit of quipping during Happy Hour pickup time at the local campus bars and pubs. He couldn’t say he was looking forward to it, this rest-of-his-life.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

She had no images of this love. She could offer no anecdotes. It was a belief rather than a memory.

Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are human beings. To me it's the latter, so I sign up

To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self.