My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.
I learned very early in life that I was always going to need people more than they needed me
The world was very feminine when I was young. And now it's very masculine.
The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
I was beaten up wherever I went, and people shouted at me and cursed me and threw things at me.