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I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days... →
When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.
The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.
Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.
To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off.
Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.
The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself.
Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.
I think biologically we are attracted to more than one person, but given society and our needs, monogamy works better.
Fantasy isn't something you run out of.
I'm sure it's why I'm such an odd duck in my feminist generation, because I've always been equally fair to men.
Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.
Women's behavior in handling beauty, even before feminism, was to deny they had any. Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.