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Gallia est omnia divisa in partes tres,’”
A reference to Julius Caesar’s Commentaries on the Gallic War, which opens with the cited phrase, translated as “Gaul is a whole divided into three parts.”
she took clean sheets and pillow cases from the top shelf of the closet and stripped the bed, working quickly to avoid thinking consciously of why she was changing the sheets.
wearing such a print this early in the year was certainly rushing the season.
she thought with revulsion, It’s as though I was trying to make myself look prettier than I am, just for him;
“All men smoke cigars,” the man said. “Someday you’ll smoke a cigar, too.”
the wading-through-molasses feeling of trying to hurry children.
They had not lived in the country town long enough for Mrs. Walpole to feel the disgrace of washing on Tuesday as mortal;
the two Mrs. Winnings, mother and daughter-in-law, had grown to look a good deal alike, as women will who live intimately together,
she had at least given them another Howard, with the Winning eyes and mouth, in exchange for her food and her bed.
she believed that starboard was up, in the sense that the highest mast always pointed at the north star.)
“My husband,” Mrs. Arnold went on. “I don’t want him to know that I’m worried, and Doctor Murphy would probably feel it was necessary to tell him.”
Because they were not married, Robbie was reluctant to take her anywhere where he might be embarrassed by her presence.
“Mr. Harris,” Mrs. Harris said carefully, “feels that movies are intellectually retarding. We do not go to movies.”
The people seemed hurled on in a frantic action that made every hour forty-five minutes long, every day nine hours, every year fourteen days.
They go to the police for everything, Margaret thought, these people, these New York people, it’s as though they had selected a section of the population to act as problem-solvers, and so no matter what they want they look for a policeman.
“When things look worst, you’ll either die or get better.
some of them are drinkers and some of them throw their money away on gambling and some of them chase every young girl they see.”
“I think a successful marriage is the woman’s responsibility,” Mrs. Hart said.
Her tooth, which had brought her here unerringly, seemed now the only part of her to have any identity. It seemed to have had its picture taken without her; it was the important creature which must be recorded and examined and gratified; she was only its unwilling vehicle, and only as such was she of interest to the dentist and the nurse, only as the bearer of her tooth was she worth their immediate and practised attention.
though you had overdrawn your account with the dentist and were two teeth in arrears.
the nurse brought her whisky in a paper cup and set it on the edge of the wash-basin.
sometimes I wonder if men are quite sane, any of them. Maybe they’re all just crazy and every other woman knows it but me, and my mother never told me and my roommate just didn’t mention it and all the other wives think I know.…
