The particular source of frustration of women observing their own self-study and measuring their worth as women by the distance th...ey kept from men necessitated that a distance be kept, and so what vindicated them also poured fuel on the furnace of their rage. One delight presumed another dissatisfaction, but their hatefulness confessed to their own lack of power to please. They hated men because they needed husbands, and they loathed the men they chased away for going.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
New Hampshire has always been cheap, mean, rural, small-minded, and reactionary. It's one of the few states in the nation with nei...ther a sales tax nor an income tax. Social services are totally inadequate there, it ranks at the bottom in state aid to education--the state is literally shaped like a dunce cap--and its medical assistance program is virtually nonexistent. Expecting aid for the poor there is like looking for an egg under a basilisk.... The state encourages skinflints, cheapskates, shutwallets, and pinched little joykillers who move there as a tax refuge to save money.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It was strange: two personalities coming together can create a third, with each being different, yet together making up one they a...re surprised at separately.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a terrible blindness in the love that wants only to accommodate. It's not only to do with omissions and half-truths. It i...mplants a lack of being in the speaker and robs the self of an identity without which it is impossible for one to grow close to another.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Adultery is the vice of equivocation. It is not marriage but a mockery of it, a merging that mixes love and dread together l...ike jackstraws. There is no understanding of contentment in adultery.... You belong to each other in what together you've made of a third identity that almost immediately cancels your own. There is a law in art that proves it. Two colors are proven complimentary only when forming that most desolate of all colors--neutral gray.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »