"Brilliant. . . . Marriage Confidential is both laugh-out-loud funny and gasp-out-loud shocking, and nothing less than a Feminine Mystique for our time. Mark my words, your marriage will change after reading this book."

-- Debby Applegate

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“Sometimes you need a cigarette. Like after you have sex with a beautiful woman or a confused young man.”
“True delicacy is not a fragile thing.”
“The sign of our time is that the dignity of the human personality has no place: the age is, as are its laws, impersonal, its heart as of stone... . Yet on arrest, in the name of these laws, we die like dogs, neither executioner nor victim making a sound. Because he has to gasp for air all his life, panting for breath is the man of today's only way out.”
“In common with many who have a brain injury, I initially lost my confidence and felt very vulnerable, as if a protective layer of skin had been stripped away.”
“And there are people that will stand in your corner and convince you to stand up for another round no matter what.”
“He is a fool who thinks by force or skill To turn the current of a woman's will.”
“I get upset over a bad shot just like anyone else. But it's silly to let the game get to you. When I miss a shot I just think what a beautiful day it is. And what pure fresh air I'm breathing. Then I take a deep breath. I have to do that. That's what gives me the strength to break the club.”
“Perhaps it is the expediency in the political eye that blinds it.”

Source : Virgilia Peterson (1961). “A Matter of Life and Death”, Bantam Books

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