“When one woman strikes at the heart of another, she seldom misses, and the wound is invariably fatal.”
“Information is seldom enough to heal a wounded heart.”
“Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.”
“It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly. ”
“Pride is a wound, and vanity is the scab on it. One's life picks at the scab to open the wound again and again. In men, it seldom heals and often grows septic.”
“How is it possible to miss a woman whom you kept at a distance, so that when she was gone you would not miss her?”