And sometimes drunk women aren't raped; they just make stupid choices--and to say we deserve special treatment when we're drunk because we're women, to say we need to be , I find offensive.
Showtime! 6-0-0 the clock said—in my face, first thing
See a 3 and an 8. (He said.) And then work
Of me, and yet I feel afraid. I feel like something is going wrong,
You have to admit you’re a jerk and that everything was all your fault. So, like, what men are supposed to do in general, I said.
You ever hear about those wildfires near San Bernardino, back in 1999, they destroyed, like eighty homes and about ninety thousand acres? I shrugged. Seemed like California was always on fire. I was t...
You don't ever want to be the wife who keeps her husband from playing poker - you don't ever want to be the shrew with the curlers and the rolling pin. So you swallow your disappointment and say okay.
Well, there are all kinds of men, and you are the wrong kind.
We are one long frightening climax.
This man might kill me.
There was just me, left wretched in my childhood bed.
Teeth chattering and my heartbeat thumping behind my eyeballs.
TV goes to a commercial for air freshener. A woman is spraying air freshener so her family will be happy.
She's a good girl (for a cunt).
She is an incredibly intelligent idiot
My husband is the most loyal man on the planet until he’s not.
Instead there were paintings of sailboats, proper pastel pastorals, a portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt. The latter was particularly strange, since I’d known little about Mrs. Roosevelt, except that she w...
If you’re always early, you’re never late.
I was a man of jagged risings
I regretted what a serious teenager I'd been: There were no posters of pop stars or favorite movies, no girlish collection of photos or corsages. Instead there were paintings of sailboats, proper past...