Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger. |
Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still. |
If a few lustful and erotic reveries make the housework go by "as if in a dream," why not? |
Inside every adult male is a denied little boy |
It was the promise of men, that around each corner there was yet another man, more wonderful than the last, that sustained me. You see, I had men confused with life. . . . You can't get what I wanted from a man, not in this life. |
Spontaneous and honest love admits errors, hesitations, and human failings; it can be tested and repaired. Idealized love ties us because we already intuit that it is unreal and are afraid to face this truth. |
The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children. |
To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off. |
When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself. |