I too decided, after investigating everything carefully from the very first, to write an orderly account for you, most excellent T...heophilus, so that you may know the truth concerning the things about which you have been instructed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hard-hearted girl, get rid of these doubts... based on false rumor. It's not good to subject me to sorrow because of backbiters' words, or have you decided now, silly girl, that it's all true? Do to me what you will, sweetheart. Suit yourself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The question that's probably uppermost in the child's mind is: Why do my parents want to have a baby? Don't they love me? And if t...hey love me, why do they need another one? Aren't I enough? Imagine for a minute yourself in a similar situation. Your husband comes home and says: "Honey I love you so much, I've decided to go get another wife so I can have two." How would you feel?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I had reconciled myself to a life without marriage or children for the sake of my career. And then my brothers got married. I real...ized I didn't even have a home, that in the future I couldn't do politics when I had to ask permission from their wives as to whether I could use the dining room or the telephone. I couldn't rent a home because a woman living on her own can be suspected of all kinds of scandalous associations. So keeping in mind that many people in Pakistan looked to me, I decided to make a personal sacrifice in what I thought would be, more or less, a loveless marriage, a marriage of convenience.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier ...your decisions are once they become entirely selfish.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin--a la...nguage with which it has precious little in common. In Latin, to take one example, it is not possible to split an infinitive. So in English, the early authorities decided, it should not be possible to split an infinitive either. But there is no reason why we shouldn't, any more than we should forsake instant coffee and air travel because they weren't available to the Romans. Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football. It is a patent absurdity. But once this insane notion became established, grammarians found themselves having to draw up ever more complicated and circular arguments to accommodate the inconsistencies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »