The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.
From Angela Carter
What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many?
It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our time.
Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison.
You must realize that I was suffering from love and I knew him as intimately as I knew my own image in a mirror. In other words, I knew him only in relation to myself.
In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.
A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.
I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.
That is what I'm looking forward to the most, practical learning. I want to be a registered nurse so getting to talk to people who already work in those jobs can really teach me what to expect when I get out in the real world.
I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my acting, for God's sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful lot easier to deal with.
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