"somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds."

-- William Butler Yeats

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“I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mama's boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental nature of her task. It will take a crowbar, two bulldozers and half a dozen Molotov cocktails to pry my Oedipus and me loose from one another.”
“Reality is no less precious if it presents itself to someone else. All are discoverers, and if we disenfranchise any, all suffer.”
“The greatest tragedy in life is not death. The greatest tragedy is to be alive and not know why”
“With each shimmy, the bugle beads on their scandalously revealing costumes swung and shook. It was the sort of display Evie knew her mother would have found appallingâ€”an example of the moral decay of the young generation. It was sexual and dangerous and thrilling, and Evie wanted more of it.”
“Ironically, survey after survey shows that married men are happier and healthier than unmarried men. Oh, and they also have more sex.”

Source : "How hookups and hang-ups delay manhood". TODAYshow.com Interview, www.today.com. August 03, 2010.
“Journalists are divided into two groups: those who live by ethics, and those who don't.”
“When I got married and had a child and went to work, my day was all day, all night. You lose your sense of balance. That was in the late '60s, '70s, women went to work, they went crazy. They thought the workplace was much more exciting than the home. They thought the family could wait. And you know what? The family can't wait. And women have now found that out. It all has to do with women, or the homemaker leaving the home and realizing that where they've gone is not as fabulous, or as rewarding, or as self-fulfilling as the balance between the workplace and the home place.”
“Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they're afraid to plant themselves?”

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