Is there a character in all of fiction more isolated than the little red hen?
IN MOST FAMILIES, there is a favorite child. Parents deny it and maybe they truly don’t see it, but it’s obvious to the children. Unfairness bothers children greatly. It’s hard to always come in secon...
I wasn't happy, exactly, but I was remembering how happiness felt.
I thought there were moments to complain about your parents and moments to be grateful, and it was a shame to mix those moments up.
I couldn't fit my whole self into a marriage, no matter who my husband was. There were parts of me that John liked, and different parts for the others, but no one could deal with all of me, So I'd lop...
How was your day, Rosie? Dad would ask when he came home from work and I’d tell him it was ebullient. Or limpid. Or dodecahedron. That’s good to hear, he’d say.
At twenty-two, I had the callowest possible definition of interesting and, by the measure of my own calipers, was far from interesting myself.
And this is a small point by comparison, but why do Republicans persist in substituting Democrat, with its rat ending, when Democratic would be correct? Because they want us to know, in every word the...
An oft-told story is like a photograph in a family album; eventually, it replaces the moment it was meant to capture.
An election year in the U.S., as if you needed to be reminded, the vituperative tunes of the Ayn Rand Marching Band bleating from the airwaves.
In Chinese, the character for woman was a man on his knees
When there is an invisible elephant in the room, one is from time to time bound to trip over a trunk.
We sat around our own table, an island of sad reflection in an ocean of merry din.
We call them feelings because we feel them.
The value of money is a scam perpetrated by those who have it over those who don't
Tajna je dobrog života u tom da pružiš svoju najbolju utakmicu u svem što radiš. Pa čak i ako bacaš smeće, to moraš izvrsno obaviti.
Sometimes you best avoid talking by being quiet, but sometimes you best avoid talking by talking.
So this is what I said to Mom; this is what I meant to say - That there was something inside Fern I didn't know. That I didn't know her in the way I'd always thought I did.
It was the marriage that was important; Jane Austen rarely even bothered to write about the wedding.
I still haven't found the place where I can be my true self. But maybe you never get to be your true self, either.