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.
Antagonism in my family comes wrapped in layers of code, sideways feints, full deniability.
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 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.
Airports and train stations are where you get to cry
What we have instead are false memories aroused later and more pertinent to this later perspective than to the original events. Sometimes in matters of great emotion, one representation, retaining all...
You know, I don't think there's anything truly unforgivable. Not where there's love.
When you think of two things to say, pick your favorite and only say that, my mother suggested once, as a tip to polite social behavior, and the rule was later modified to one in three.
Theory of mind postulates that, even though these cannot be directly observed, we readily impute mental states to others (and also to ourselves, since the bedrock proposal is that we understand our ow...
The value of money is a scam perpetrated by those who have it over those who don't
The only way to make any sense of the United States Congress, our father told me once, is to view it as a two-hundred-year-long primate study.
The next day I lay out on the grass in our backyard and I looked straight into the sun, the way my mother had told me never to do because it would damage my eyes. I thought that I would grow up to be...
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'm being careful with here, Harlow told me, apparently irritated by something I hadn't even had the time to say yet. She was making assumptions about my no-fun-at-all-ness. They were good assumptions...
I opened the door to The Graduate and slid into the din. I'd been considering telling Harlow what I'd just learned about chimp sex. Much would depend on how drunk I got.
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...
I DIDN’T KNOW what she was thinking or feeling. Her body had become unfamiliar to me. And yet, at the very same time, I recognized everything about her. My sister, Fern. In the whole wide world, my on...