A woman, I forget who, once asked a male friend why men felt threatened by women. He replied that they were afraid that women might laugh at them. When she asked a group of women why women felt threatened by men, they said, “We’re afraid they might kill us.”
The basic human form is female. Maleness is a kind of birth defect.
We all have physical, emotional needs that can only be met by interaction with another person. The trick is to ask someone appropriate to meet them.
I’ve tasted both the fantasy and the deed. The fantasy is way more piquant.
That’s what really bothers you, isn’t it? The one night stand. Man f***s woman. Subject man, verb f***s, object woman. That’s okay. Woman f***s man. Woman subject, man object. That’s not so comfortable for you, is it?
No-one knows what’s going on in someone else’s mind. And life would be intolerable if we did.
We all know people who live too much in the past. Too much history, too much remembering, can ultimately destroy the present and the future.
Life is our only true possession.
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It’s never over for someone like you. It won’t be over until I stop you.[to Paul Spector]
I don’t believe in love. At least, I believe in love, but not in happiness. The only love that lasts is unhappy love.[in his journal]
We’ve chosen to work in a masculine, paramilitary, patriarchal culture. Let’s not let it beat us.[to Danielle]
We all need love and we all need nurture. There’s too much death and destruction. But friends who love you should warm you like the sun. Make you feel good about yourself. Not freeze you in their contempt and in their hate. Anger corrodes our belief that anything good can happen to us.[to Katie]
