“For God’s sake, girl, there are more important things on our plates than your sex life.” Like mine, I silently added sheepishly.”
“There are some things more important than your own life. Like friendship, and love, and trust, and goodness.”
“Surely the woman had more important things to do than to teach my sister how to read. I was waiting for cookies, for fuck's sake.”
“An important aspect of the ebbing of sex was that other things became interesting. Sex obliterates the individuality of young women more often than it does that of young men, because so much more of a woman than a man is used by sex.”
“There are things that are more important than life.”
“As a matter of fact, I think there are more things important in life than "relationships.”