“Women never thought beyond the happy ending. We'd been taught to believe that our world revolved around securing a commitment from a man.”

“Thank God life ends—we'd never survive it. From Big Bang to weary shag, the history of the world. Our flesh is ferocious...our bodies will kill us...our bones will outlive us.”

“The truth is women need men, we are neither superior nor inferior to men. We are better at some things and worse at other things. Mature people take the hard road and choose to delay quick gratification for true love. Mature people realize that the world does not revolve around them, and their desires, but around commitment. Mature people are committed to something beyond themselves; God, good, the good of society, family etc. If men are the source of your problems, then you are doomed to wait for eternity for them to fix it.”

“After all we'd been through, we still couldn't take our heads from out of our asses or our hands from around each other's throats.”

“Women may be vain, but when a man is vain, it is beyond believing, for a man is willing to die for his vanity.”

“I believe the world is as we choose to view it. Simple as that. Our happiness is, in the end, up to us, and to no one else.”