Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.
When we're young, we like happy endings. When we're a little older, we think happy endings are unrealistic and so we prefer bad but credible endings. When we're older still, we realize happy endings aren't so bad after all.
If he wants to be an asshole, it's a free country. Millions before him have made the same life choice.
Time has not stood still. It has washed over me, washed me away, as if I'm nothing more than a woman of sand, left by a careless child too near the water.
I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.
Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space.
The issue isn't, Am I good enough? No. The issue is, Do I not have any other choice? Will and desire don't matter. Ability doesn't matter. Need is the only thing that matters.
In spirituals, the talk of heaven and deliverance was code for a better life. 'Crossing the River Jordan' was code, of course, for escaping to freedom.
To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind.
Because if a woman's heart was free a man might have hope.