“What you discovered about yourself in raising children wasn't always agreeable or attractive.”

“There was something almost tasty and almost sexy in letting the annoying boy be punished by her husband. In standing blamelessly aside while the boy suffered for having hurt her.What you discovered about yourself in raising children wasn't always agreeable or attractive.”

“The stories people tell you about themselves seem to retain the possibility of being false. But what you discover about them by yourself seems to be the truth.”

“Men are attracted to beauty because it indicates health and youth—no point mating with a sickly woman who won’t be around to raise the children.”

“She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.”

“You've spent all this time afraid to talk about what was going on between you two, but if you'd ever bothered to ask him, you would have discovered that he wasn't worth it.”