When I try to understand somebody, create a character, I fall into them. When I think writers are telling me what to think, I get harrumphy.
Suburbia is all about private ownership and not having to share, and it leads to a paranoid, defensive mindset. I know this, having grown up in Essex.
Legality is just the name for everything that's not dangerous for the ruling order. 
There's nothing New York likes more than a thing. Or a place. Or a place that's a thing. Or a thing that happens to be a place. 
She thought she was a feminist. She was only bad tempered. 