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Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity - the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga.

Well, Chrissy, I'm afraid your grandmother's Irish Alzheimer's has gotten quite advanced - she's forgotten everything but her grudges.

Life was messy, conflict inevitable. It didn't mean you had to fall apart.

April's just a Dixie cup of crazy. Lydia's more like a twenty-gallon tank

Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.

It felt something like being in love, but without the weight of having to choose just one heart to hold on to, and without the fear of ever losing it.

for everything that was wrong with men.

Timing was everything when it came to being a woman - the moment you entered the world could seal your fate.

Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.

No one can ever know the inner parts of anyone else's marriage. It's a strange business.

I love the smell of a man's skin.

Maggie wondered if in some ways all the complaining only made matters worse.

I admire the linear and decisive way a certain kind of man thinks, to my curlicue boundless overthinking.

All of it remained, a constant reminder: He existed, then he didn't. The world spins on, indifferent to the mess.

There were so many ways to be twenty-six years old.

She had once said that she believed the women's liberation movement of the sixties and seventies was actually a ploy by men to get women to do more.

He also believed that loyalty was earned - sharing a bloodline didn't mean you had to be close.

How could a person have and do all these stupid things
clip coupons and double lock the front door
and then one day just cease to exist?

I love making lists.

Even if there was no God there was always the ocean- before you and after you, breathing in and out for all eternity.

Some women were created to make other women feel like shit about themselves.

What would you have today if you woke up with only the things you thanked God for yesterday?" He wondered

We don't always do the things our parents want us to do, but it is their mistake if they can't find a way to love us anyway.

With the Smithies, it was different. There was sometimes no telling where one of them began and the others left off.

A glimpse at my night stand gives the mostly true impression that I am a book hoarder.

You could sell crack on the street and go to jail for decades. Or you could sell a woman, and be back out by morning.

Men made mistakes and when they asked forgiveness, women forgave. It happened every day.

I like dressing up for dates and dissecting a dinner conversation with a new guy to determine if he might be The One.

I sometimes read on the subway, but I'm a hopeless eavesdropper and get easily distracted by strangers' conversations.

And anyway, once you allowed yourself to picture such a scenario, it couldn't happen. That was just the way life went.