America to fight on the Internet over their mythologies of home, because home was now a blurred place between here and there, and at least online they could ignore the awareness of how inconsequential...
After work, she wandered around the center of Baltimore, aimlessly, interested in nothing. Was this what the novelists meant by ennui?
A questão de gênero, como está estabelecida hoje em dia, é uma grande injustiça. Estou com raiva. Devemos ter raiva. Ao longo da história, muitas mudanças positivas só aconteceram por causa da raiva....
A precious performance, Blaine had called it, in that gently forbearing tone he used when they talked about novels, as though he was sure that she, with a little more time and a little more wisdom, wo...
She was uncomfortable with what the professors called participation, and did not see why it should be part of the final grade; it merely made students talk and talk, class time wasted on obvious words...
It is one thing to know something intellectually and quite another to feel it emotionally.
He did not want me to seek the whys, because there are some things that happen for which we can formulate no whys, for which whys simply do not exist and, perhaps, are not necessary.
جدي لامي وجدي لأبي كلاهما كان رجلا رائعا.كلاهما وُلد في بدايات القرن الـ20 في ارض قبيلة الابيو التابعه للحكم البريطاني،كلاهما قرر ان يعلم ابناءه،كلاهما كان خفيف الظل.وكلاهما كان ذا كبرياء.علمت كل هذا...
Él siempre se esforzaba por ser diferente, incluso cuando no importaba. Era como si actuara en lugar de vivir.
«No juzgar» puede degenerar fácilmente en «no tener una opinión sobre nada» o «callar las opiniones propias».
That people walk different paths in the world, and that as long as those paths do no harm to others, they are valid paths that she must respect.
Teach a writing workshop in Lagos and one of the participants, a young woman, told me that a friend had told her not to listen to my feminist talk; otherwise she would absorb ideas that would destroy...
Surrounded by students who were all folded easily on their seats, all flush with knowledge, not of the subject of the classes, but of how to be in the classes
She feared that marriage would flatten it to a prosaic partnership.
Me doy cuenta de lo fácil que es dar consejos sobre cómo criar a los hijos cuando no tienes que enfrentarte a la enorme complejidad que comporta.
Loping, comfortable gait pulled my eyes and held them. I turned and dashed into the flat. I could see the front yard
He was sure that she, with a little more time and a little more wisdom, would come to accept that the novels he liked were superior, novels written by young and youngish men and packed with things, a...
He was out playing and heard Molly calling him. Richard! Supper! Instead of answering Coming! and running to her, he dodged under a hedge, scraping his knees. Richard! Richard! Molly sounded frantic t...
Feminism. If anything, it makes us see the extent of the problem, the successful reach of patriarchy. It shows us, too, that not all women are feminists and not all men are misogynists.
Felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He made her like herself. With him, she was at ease; her skin felt as though it was her right size.