With the Smithies, it was different. There was sometimes no telling where one of them began and the others left off.
Through centuries and across cultures, women were intimidated and coerced into marriage through horrible means-kidnapping, physical violence, even gang rape. In eighteenth -century England, the doctri...
Now she saw that marriage was like being in a three-legged race with the same person for the rest of your life. Your hopes, your happiness, your luck, your moods, all yoked to his.
For everything that was wrong with men.
Someone could save your life without you ever knowing it. It happened more than most people realized.
It seemed to Alice that everyone these days was out for themselves. The sort of families she and Daniel had grown up in and tried to carry on no longer existed, not really. Her mother had had eight ch...
It felt something like being in love, but without the weight of having to choose just one heart to hold on to, and without the fear of ever losing it.
Her faith that love was everything in the end, even if it was an imperfect love, a love that depended on memory, on some former version of who they
He was forty-five
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Each of Nora's children had arrived on this earth as him or herself, the more she knew them, the more she felt it to be true. They were so different from one another, and from her.
You should call your brother and congratulate him on the new job, her father might say over the phone, and it would take Kate a moment to figure out what the hell he was talking about. Brother? She di...
April's just a Dixie cup of crazy. Lydia's more like a twenty-gallon tank
And then there were the things Sally knew her mother would have loved. Those, too, made it easy to imagine how she might come back to life, since nothing good seemed quite real without her there to ap...
All over the planet women were being tormented, yet if you took sexism seriously, you were a bore, an idiot, or a pain in the ass.
After all this time, she still had not grown accustomed to the American obsession with air-conditioning. Every store and subway car had it-an ecological disaster, but an apparent necessity for America...
Even if there was no God there was always the ocean- before you and after you, breathing in and out for all eternity.
People wanted you to validate their choices by doing the same thing they had done.
She and Gerald rarely argued, and when they did, she quickly nipped it in the bud, silently reciting an Ogden Nash poem entitled A Word to Husbands, though she thought it applied to just as well to wi...
She could come up with a hundred reasons why now wasn’t the time, why home was not a place one went for a visit.
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