What I love belongs to me. Not the chairs and tables in my house, but the masterpieces of the world. It is only a question of loving them enough. To others we are not ourselves but performers in their lives cast for a part we do not even know we are playing. The covers of this book are too far apart.
Rape is a culturally fostered means of suppressing women.
Legally we say we deplore it, but mythically we romanticize and perpetuate it, and privately we excuse and overlook it. But I strongly object when they start shaking them to make certain they are still going. When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice. When dining with the devil, one must use a long spoon. Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.