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A lot of people call you a feminist painter.""What indeed," I say. "I hate party lines, I hate ghettos. Anyway. I'm too old to have invented it and yo...more

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They are boiling with the pressured energy of explosive forces confined in a small space, and with the fervor of all religious movements in their earl...more

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I used to jog but it's bad for the knees. Too much beta carotene turns you orange, too much calcium gives you kidney stones. Health kills.

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You can wipe your feet on me, twist my motives around all you like, you can dump millstones on my head and drown me in the river, but you can’t get me...more

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Though I knew how this failure would hurt you, I had to fold like a grey moth and let go.You could not believe I was more than your echo.

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How could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.

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The male frog, in mating season," said Crake, "makes as much noise as it can. The females are attracted to the male frog with the biggest, deepest voi...more

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He was a dork, a dink, a dong… Why should the male member be used as a term of abuse? No man hated his own dorkdinkdong, quite the opposite. But maybe...more

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From her handbag she takes a round gilt compact with violets on the cover. She opens it, unclosing her other self, and runs her fingertip around the c...more

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I'm not senile," I snapped. "If I burn the house down it will be on purpose.

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What a moron I was to think you were sweet and innocent, when it turns out you were actually college-educated the whole time!

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Not that it isn't great to see you. But it's not so great for you. What'd you do wrong? Laugh at his dick?

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I don't want a man around, what use are they except for ten seconds' worth of half babies

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... Remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.

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But if you happen to be a man, sometime in the future, and you've made it this far, please remember: you will never be subjected to the temptation of ...more