“It's often said that a traumatic experience early in life marks a person forever, pulls her out of line, saying, "Stay there. Don't move.”
― Middlesex
― Middlesex
“You live with the threat of my extinction. I live with it too.”
― The Hours
― The Hours
“A slap in the face is more effective than ten lectures. It makes you understand very quickly.”
― Venus in Furs
― Venus in Furs
“Woman's power lies in man's passion, and she knows how to use it, if man doesn't understand himself. He has only one choice: to be the tyrant over or the slave of woman.”
― Venus in Furs
― Venus in Furs
“That is what we do. That is what people do. They stay alive for each other.”
― The Hours
― The Hours
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