“They obeyed, as wise men do when a woman puts her foot down . . .”
“a wise woman puts a grain of sugar in everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.”
“Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.”
“The woman does not work because the man tells her to work and she obeys. On the contrary, the woman works because she has told the man to work and he hasn’t obeyed.”
“When you put your best foot forward in this life, you will never put a foot wrong when stepping out.”
“She wore her sexuality with an older woman's ease, and not like an awkward purse, never knowing how to hold it, where to hang it, or when to just put it down.”