The Bible says Eve was born of Adam’s rib, but he was born of the earth, so there was woman before there ever was man. She is not merely a mate, a life’s companion, a helpmeet; she is the moving force, the power.
It is not easy to learn much about love, but one thing I discovered, that Lady Harleigh taught me: it is not whom you love that is important, but only that we love.
You can’t negate the ingrained imagination of a whole culture.
Nothin’ wrong with sentiment, if it’s what you truly feel. That’s the trouble with folks, they’re afraid to show what’s inside ’em.
A woman always thinks it takes two to keep a secret, but I’m here to say I think it takes one.
Time put a patina of affection on yesteryear, and we tended to forget how appalling existence could be in those times, how long and how hard a man had to labor for his food, how difficult childbearing was, how few medicines and conveniences there were; how stern the realities of life.
A hermaphrodite. There was this poster at the drugstore this morning that said they’re going to have a real live hermaphrodite this year. All the way from Malta.
We help one another by understanding one another. That is the only help there is. And the only hope as well.
It is like a deep pool, this imagination, and during the day it gets used up, like water, and when we sleep at night the water we have used during the day gets replaced. And if it is not replaced, if there is none to drink of, we are thirsty. It is from sleep that God gives us our strength and our power and our peace, do you see.
I wish I could help,” he murmured, with a turn to the Victrola handle. “We help one another by understanding one another: that is the only help there is.
She seemed less my wife and more a woman in her own right, more self-reliant and independent. I felt I was looking at her in the round, so to speak, as one views a statue, from all sides, not merely a bas-relief with the figure partially imprisoned in the stone.
He drifted, dreamed; and dreamed some more.
There’s things in a woman a man may never understand.