Leah W

“Those who lament the dissolution of the American family-kids with no way to get to Girl Scouts, aging parents put into nursing homes-should remember what it was that kept the American family together: women's blood.”
― Joan Acocella

“If it wasn't for me, I'd do brilliantly.”
― Chamfort

“I enjoy a misogynist so long as they have a wicked sense of humor and know, on some level, that they’re pigs. This is why I enjoy Philip Roth but not Saul Bellow or James Salter.”
― Heidi Julavits, The Folded Clock: A Diary

“Cockroaches were a problem, too, and to me the people who invented Combat, the little black roach-trapping contraption, are urban folk heroes.”
― Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band