“A man learns with age, if he is lucky.”
“At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.”
“A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.”
“A woman, no matter the age, is always learning, always becoming. But a man . . . stops learning at fourteen or so.”
“There's a pretty woman for ever lucky man in the world: every man in the world is a lucky man if he only knew it, so why waste time?”
“she was lucky if he stood behind her. Not so lucky if he came to crush her. And a woman might only learn the truth of it—when he walked out of her life. Highlighted by 9 Kindle users”