The world is never the same as it was.... And that's as it should be. Every generation has the obligation to make the preceding ge...neration irrelevant. It happens in little ways: no longer knowing the names of bands or even recognizing their sounds of music; no longer implicitly understanding life's rules: wearing plaid Bermuda shorts to the grocery and not giving it another thought.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The emancipation of today displays itself mainly in cigarettes and shorts. There is even a reaction from the ideal of an intellect...ual and emancipated womanhood, for which the pioneers toiled and suffered, to be seen in painted lips and nails, and the return of trailing skirts and other absurdities of dress which betoken the slave-woman's intelligent companionship.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Actually being married seemed so crowded with unspoken rules and odd secrets and unfathomable responsibilities that it had no more... occurred to her to imagine being married herself than it had to imagine driving a motorcycle or having a job. She had, however, thought about being a bride, which had more to do with being the center of attention and looking inexplicably, temporarily beautiful than it did with sharing a double bed with someone with hairy legs and a drawer full of boxer shorts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They give us a pair of cloth shorts twice a year for all our clothing. When we work in the sugar mills and catch our finger in the... millstone, they cut off our hand; when we try to run away, they cut off our leg: both things have happened to me. It is at this price that you eat sugar in Europe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What goes by the name of love is banishment, with now and then a postcard from the homeland, such is my considered opinion, this e...vening.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »