That gently forbearing tone that he used when they talked about novels, as though he were sure that she, with a little more time and a little more wisdom, would come to accept that the novels he liked...
Real deep romantic love, the kind that twists you and wrings you out and makes you breathe through the nostrils of your beloved.
It would hurt him to know that she had felt that way for a while, that her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out.
Her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out.
He smiled at her self-mockery, a smile that seemed to her like a prize that she wanted to win over and over again.
Teach her that the idea of gender roles is absolute nonsense. Do not ever tell her that she should or should not do something because she is a girl. Because you are a girl is never a reason for anythi...
Teach her never to universalize her own standards or experiences. Teach her that her standards are for her alone, and not for other people. This is the only necessary form of humility: the realization...
Gender matters everywhere in the world. And I would like today to ask what we begin to dream about and plan for a different world. A fairer world. A world of happier women who are truer to themselves....
Circles, homework coupons, what foolishness would she next hear? And so she began to teach him mathematics—she called it maths and he called it math