He was never quite certain what he thought about anything until he had tested his opinion for seaworthiness in the course of some polemical storm.
You musn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.
People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.
She decided she wanted a cool, starchy independent life, with ruffles of humor like window curtains.
I really tried, or so I thought, to avoid lying, but it seemed to me that they forced it on me by the difference in their vision of things, so that I was always transposing reality for them into somet...
I mean exactly that, Mr. Davison retorted. You’ve hit the nail smack on the head. We pay a price for having money. People in my position—he turned to Kay—have ‘privilege.’ That’s what I read in the Na...
He would have been far more attractive to her if she could have trusted him. You could not love a man who was always playing hide-and-seek with you; that was the lesson she had learned.
All I knew that night was that I believed in something and couldn’t express it, while your team believed in nothing but knew how to say it—in other men’s words.
Boredom and urban cynicism had become so natural to them that an experience from which these qualities were absent seemed to be, in some way, defective.
The fault, in their view, lay with no single person, but with the middle class composition of the colony, which, feeling itself imperiled, had acted instinctively, as an organism, to extrude the riffr...
He was a thoroughly bad hat, then, but that was the kind, of course, that nice women broke their hearts over.
She felt really quite unequal to the tedious process of reconciliation which, in view of the fact that she was sorry, seemed to her highly unnecessary, like some legal routine or the difficulty of get...
You mustn’t force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex—that’s quite a thought, isn’t it?
One of the big features of living alone was that you could talk to yourself all you wanted and address imaginary audiences, running the gamut of emotion.
His flexible mind extended to take in his opponent's position and then snapped back like an elastic, with the illusion that it had covered ground.
Luckily, I am writing a memoir and not a work of fiction, and therefore I do not have to account for my grandmother’s unpleasing character and look for the Oedipal fixation or the traumatic experience...
The group was not afraid of being radical either; they could see the good Roosevelt was doing, despite what Mother and Dad said; they were not taken in by party labels and thought the Democrats should...
Independent working girls out in the world, in pursuit of the kind of adventure that would strengthen, not deplete, us, as we would then be armed with experience.
The privacy to make a scene was something she would miss in Utopia … [N]ow, surrounded by these watchers, she felt deprived of a basic right … [to] behave badly if necessary, until [Preston] responded...
Elinor was always firmly convinced of other people’s hypocrisy since she could not believe that they noticed less than she did.
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