“Loud, stupid and overeating will suffice as long as we also have the funny, the fierce and the intellectual”
“I have also fantasised myself to be his female slave, but this does not suffice, for after all every woman can be the slave of her husband.”
“And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I'd probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.”
“You make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her.”
“Too long a sacrificeCan make a stone of the heart.Oh, when may it suffice?”
“Funny, she had always thought that thin, bespectacled, intellectual types like Brian attracted her. Lora had to smile at her own naivete. Who would have guessed that she, Lora Harding, would buckle at the knees over a hunk of male beef?”