The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind.
Mother's Day celebrates a huge lie about the value of women: that mothers are superior beings, that they have done more with their lives and chosen a more difficult path.
Anyone who has read a Trollope novel knows that women did not have to wait until 1960 to feel trapped.
Long historical books get written by women, but not contemporary experiments, which still seems to be a very male-dominated field.
I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters.
When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio?
Gender and race got very entwined in the 19th century, as abolition broke out, and then women wanted the right to speak about it.
That was the nature of history, of course: notional, partial, unknowable, a record made by the victors.
Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.
The attitude of, 'I will never self-publish,' coming from any author, indicates that they have never been in a position where it is their only option.
Just as the left has to be more willing to question 'Government knows best,' the right has to rethink its laissez-faire attitude toward government.
Reproach is shame, blame, disgrace, disapproval and a disrespectful attitude toward yourself. When you're under reproach, your behavior shows it.
Today, I think the attitude is that governing is not necessarily good politics, and the result is that it's much more partisan and much more divided.
Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948.
I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.
If you want my personal attitude, I would tell you that I don't care about a person's sexual orientation.
It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.
My attitude is that if anybody of any age wants to read a book, let them, but I do think that no child would want to read 'Boneland.'
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
...sentences of the court on moral issues are always passed in absentia.
She has a smile that grows slowly and then shines, like an angel’s smile.
