Only a marriage with partners strong enough to risk divorce is strong enough to avoid it.
Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.
What marks a writer is this: until she - or he, of course - writes down whatever happened, turns it into a story, it hasn't really happened, it hasn't shape, form, reality.
Women, I believe, search for fellow beings who have faced similar struggles, conveyed them in ways a reader can transform into her own life, confirmed desires the reader had hardly acknowledge-desires that now seem possible. Women catch courage from the women whose lives and writings they read, and women call the bearer of that courage friend. [p. 138]
That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.
Cynic' is the sentimentalist's name for the realist.
as the years go on a sense of deep patience comes over one; one seems to know the virtue of ripeness, and the danger of rushing events.
New York is not like London, a now-and-then place to many people. You can either not live in New York or not live anyplace else. One is either a lover or hater.
It's hard to be happy, and safe, and applauded in a miserable world.
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