Everything is possible in love. In the heart of each of us there can be many rooms, and sometimes there are.
Eating with others was different from just talking to them—it was an act of commitment, a recognition of shared humanity. We all share these physical needs, it said; we are brothers and sisters in our...
It made me think of everything I had done. It made me weigh up my life. And it made me want to tie things up, so that next time - and I hope there will not be a next time - the next time I faced death...
Women are the ones who knows what's going on,' she said quietly . 'They are the ones with eyes. Have you not heard of Agatha Christie?
We can't have moral obligations to every single person in this world. We have moral obligations to those who we come up against, who enter into our moral space, so to speak. That means neighbors, peop...
We all know that it is women who take the decisions, but we have to let men think that the decisions are theirs. It is an act of kindness on the part of women.
She knew that for many people this was their greatest ambition: to have a partner and a child, to live the domestic life, but she had never thought it would be enough for her. Yet it was.
People don’t talk about mercy very much these days—it has a rather old-fashioned ring to it. but it exists and its power is quite extraordinary
One of the drawbacks to being a philosopher was that you became aware of what you should not do, and
Now, as he finished the last of his porridge, Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni reminded himself that the one thing he felt certain about when it came to women was that you could never be sure.
Men, she thought, were odd about their clothes: they liked to wear the same things until they became defeated and threadbare.
It was a pink sort of smell- a smell that seemed to get bigger as you smelled it and then burst, just like the popping of a bubble
Everybody knows, she thought, that we have a skeleton underneath our skin; there's no reason to show it
Do you think your dog might have been drunk when he bit these people, Mr Lordie?
And the memory made her humble; for we should not forget what it is to be young and to have ideas and attitudes that may later seem so fanciful.
The names we gave to others, and the things we accused them of, often said more about us than they did about them.
Of day it was or how we were feeling, they were
You haven't offended me at all. You've made me think. That's all.
You can't deceive your own mother. That's the one person, the only one, to whom you will always be transparent.
This was the difficulty with laws and with legal language: they used language which very few people, apart from lawyers, understood. Penal Codes, then, were all very well, but she wondered whether it...