I wasn't born to be a fighter. I was born with a gentle nature, a flexible character and an organism as equilibrated as it is judg...ed hysterical. I shouldn't have been forced to fight constantly and ferociously. The causes I have fought for have invariably been causes that should have been gained by a delicate suggestion. Since they never were, I made myself into a fighter.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Depression moods lead, almost invariably, to accidents. But, when they occur, our mood changes again, since the accident shows we ...can draw the world in our wake, and that we still retain some degree of power even when our spirits are low. A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Today, only a fool would offer herself as the singular role model for the Good Mother. Most of us know not to tempt the fates. The... moment I felt sure I had everything under control would invariably be the moment right before the principal called to report that one of my sons had just driven somebody's motorcycle through the high school gymnasium.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Since civilizing children takes the better part of two decades--some twenty years of nonstop thinking, nurturing, teaching, coaxin...g, rewarding, forgiving, warning, punishing, sympathizing, apologizing, reminding, and repeating, not to mention deciding what to do when--I now understand that one wrong move is invariably followed by hundreds of opportunities to be wrong again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In motherhood, where seemingly opposite realities can be simultaneously true, the role of nurturer invariably conflicts with the r...ole of socializer. When trouble came as it surely must, was I the good cop who understood, the bad cop who terrorized, or both?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As with most liberal sexual ideas, what makes the world a better place for men invariably makes it a duller and more dangerous pla...ce for women.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We must not suppose that, because a man is a rational animal, he will, therefore, always act rationally; or, because he has such o...r such a predominant passion, that he will act invariably and consequentially in pursuit of it. No, we are complicated machines; and though we have one main spring that gives motion to the whole, we have an infinity of little wheels, which, in their turns, retard, precipitate, and sometime stop that motion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he ne...eded company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »