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Boys are just boys after all, but sometimes girls really seem to be the turn of a pale wrist, or the sudden jut of a hip, or a clutch of very dark hai...more

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Time is how you spend your love.

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And I'm not going to get any thinner or any younger, my ass is going to hit the ground, if it hasn't already--and I want to be with somebody who can s...more

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And it's time people told the truth about beautiful women. They do not shimmer down staircases. They do not descend, as was once supposed, from on hig...more

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Mothers are urgently trying to tell something to their daughters, and this urgency is precisely what repels their daughters, forcing them to turn away...more

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Right. I look fine. Except I don't,' said Zora, tugging sadly at her man's nightshirt. This was why Kiki had dreaded having girls: she knew she wouldn...more

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This was why Kiki had dreaded having girls: she knew she wouldn't be able to protect them from self-disgust.

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People talk about the happy quiet that can exist between two loves, but this, too, was great; sitting between his sister and his brother, saying nothi...more

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On BeautyNo, we could not itemize the listof sins they can't forgive us.The beautiful don't lack the wound.It is always beginning to snow.Of sins they...more

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Greeting cards routinely tell us that everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all of the time.

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Girls either wanted him or wanted to improve him, but most often a combination of the two. They wanted to improve him until he justified the amount th...more