“No young woman of good breeding should show exclusive partiality to one partner all night.”

“If a woman is in one's thoughts all day, one should not have a dream of her at night.”

“Consciousness of exclusion through naming is acute. Identities seem contradictory, partial, and strategic.”

“Where should one use perfume?" a young woman asked. "Wherever one wants to be kissed.”

“Sometimes I would walk with a sense of pain, sometimes with pleasure. If a woman is in one's thoughts all day, one should not have to dream of her at night.”

“Experiements that have been devised to inflict even mild social pain (like exclusion form a group task or betrayal by a partner in a gambling game) have demonstrated significant activation of the sinula and the anterior cingulate cortex. Emotional pain isn't just a metaphor: In terms of brain activation, it partially overlaps with physical pain.”