"There is really one city for everyone just as there is one major love."

--

Source : Dawn Powell (1998). “The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965”, Zoland Books

Dawn Powell

“Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.”
“... he became an officer and a gentleman, which is an enviable thing;”
“Loyalism, or Unionism, or Protestantism, or whatever you want to call it, in Northern Ireland - it operates not as a class system, but a caste system.”
“My daughter doesn't want to go to school because she knows 'the men' are watching for her. They jump out of the bushes and from behind cars and who knows where else, besieging these children just to get a photo.”
“I don't feel as though I have to prove anything to anybody.”
“It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover.”

Source : Marge Piercy (2016). “Gone to Soldiers: A Novel”, p.371, Open Road Media
“I don't want to be throwing the football on the front yard when I'm 75. I mean, I'm not opposed to men doing that. But I don't think it's gonna work for me.”
“A gnarled old branch dulls the blade that severs a sapling.”

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