all success cloaks a surrender

To give space when what one most yearns for is closeness, that is both the great test and great tragedy of love.

Marriage is a career which brings about more benefits than many others.

The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project

Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.

One is not conceived a lady, one turns into one.

I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.