Evelyn was an insomniac so when they say she died in her sleep, you have to question that.
After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can't trust a person.
Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their opressors.
I believe our longing for an innate harmony runs deeper than our longing for righteousness.
I am a first generation immigrant and a woman, but I don't really write about that because I feel like I'm a human being. There are universal human experiences. When you don't put your picture online, they can see your soul before they have preconceived notions.
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.
Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
It is a curious thing ... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.