New Yorkers speak more quickly and shift topics more rapidly. We all know that. But the way it's done is fascinating. At least it ...fascinated me when I first moved to New York. Someone has the floor and talks. As soon as I know what they are going to say, I can jump in, finish the sentence to show I understand, and take off into my own turn. The northern California I know isn't like that. Someone talks, and I lie back and listen and let them roll for a while. When they're done, there'll be a pause that will flash like a green light to announce that someone else can have the floor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Grovelling, intimate words,... heart-stealing flattery, a tight embrace of my thinner-than-thin body, violent kisses all over-- obviously, getting angry is worth the risk, but even still, I'm not interested. My lover is dear to my heart, so how could I be like that on purpose?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I know that each stage is not going to last forever. I used to think that when he was little. Whenever he was in a bad stage I tho...ught that he was going to be like that for the rest of his life and that I'd better do something to shape him up. When he was in a good state, I thought he was going to be a perfect child and I would never have to worry; he was always going to stay that way.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[Asked, upon the death of her fast friend and sister suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1816-1902), which period of their associat...ion she had enjoyed the most:] The days when the struggle was the hardest and the fight the thickest; when the whole world was against us and we had to stand the closer to each other; when I would go to her home and help with the children and the housekeeping through the day and then we would sit up far into the night preparing our ammunition and getting ready to move on the enemy. The years since the rewards began to come have brought no enjoyment like that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... like a Wave on a beach, that thinks it's had this... Tremendous idea, coming to crash on the beach Like that, and it's true, it has, yet Others have gone before, and still others will Follow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Musicians are seldom unemotional; a woman who could sing like that must know how to love indeed. Girls brought up [as you wer...e,] in a very strait-laced and puritan fashion, always pant for liberty and happiness, and the happiness they have never comes up to what they imagined. Those are the girls that make bad wives.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I can get dressed earlier in the evening with every intention of going to a dance at midnight, but somehow after the theatre the t...hing to do seems to be either to go to bed or sit around somewhere. It doesn't seem possible that somewhere people can be expecting you at an hour like that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You know I'd a shot her when she come runnin' up here, but she's got the blame best lookin' legs I ever seen.... Well, I'll be a s...uck egg mule--legs like that and can shoot too.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »