Curtis Sittenfeld Quotes

you know what her punishment is for tormenting you way back when?" he said.I looked at him.He said, "her punishment is being her,

She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it.

There's a belief that to take care of someone else, or to let someone else take care of you - that both are inherently unfeminist. i don't agree. There's no shame in devoting yourself to another person, as long as he devotes himself to you in return

But I was living my life sideway. I did not act on what I wanted, I did not say the things I thought, and being so stifled and clamped all the time left me exhausted; no matter what I was doing, I was always imagining something else.

Children are nothing but a problem people create and then congratulate themselves on solving.

You never know the nature of another couple's marriage, do you?