To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man?

Familiarity breeds consent.

I mean, what do people talk about when they're married?" "Their kids, I guess." "Maybe that's all they have in common.

Plot involves fragmentary reality, and it might involve composite reality. Fragmentary reality is the view of the individual. Composite reality is the community or state view. Fragmentary reality is always set against composite reality. Virginia Woolf did this by creating fragmentary monologues and for a while this was all the rage in literature. She was a genius. In the hands of the merely talented it came off like gibberish.

A narcissism shared by two.

In America sex is an obsession. In Europe it's a fact of life.