It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our time.

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Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not...

Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not...

The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same...

The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same...

You must realize that I was suffering from love and I knew him as intimately...

You must realize that I was suffering from love and I knew him as intimately...

Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of...

Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of...

Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so...

Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so...

It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is...

It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is...

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come...

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come...

What a joy it is to dance and sing!

What a joy it is to dance and sing!

Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is...

Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is...

I think the adjective ''post-modernist'' really means ''mannerist.'' Books about books is fun but frivolous.

I think the adjective ''post-modernist'' really means ''mannerist.'' Books about books is fun but frivolous.

A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.

A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything...

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything...

My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second...

My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second...

Drosselmeier had unwittingly exposed himself to an overdose of reality, and it had destroyed his...

Drosselmeier had unwittingly exposed himself to an overdose of reality, and it had destroyed his...

Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe.

Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe.

Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.

Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.

Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.

Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.

That is what I'm looking forward to the most, practical learning. I want to be...

That is what I'm looking forward to the most, practical learning. I want to be...

To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis,...

To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis,...