Jane Smiley Quote

My father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days...

The highway of grace will get you somewhere a whole lot faster then the freeway of spite.

There would definitely be way fewer instances of cheating, if the average couple did not have sex only when the woman feels like it.

One of the main functions of a push-up bra is to lower the number of mothers who seem like mothers.

Babies cry at birth because it is the first time they experience separation from love.

I think maybe, when I was very young, I witnessed a chaste cheek kiss between the two when it was impossible to avoid. Christmas, birthdays. Dry lips. On their best married days, their communications...

Dust is the parent of a star!

Most people who are would each not be in love with their partner, if they did not have the kind of genitals they have.

Passing their toilet training is the very last thing that some adults did that has made their parents proud of them.

More than Captain America your kids need Amelia Earhart – more than Ant Man, they need Abraham Lincoln - more than Green Arrow they need Gandhi – more than Iron Man they need Isaac Newton.