“Being a leading power couple means not only submitting to media scrutiny but also commanding coverage. To leave the marriage behind is to step out of the spotlight. It means fading into normalcy, returning to ordinary life, perhaps an impossible admission for women who have built their egos on being one member of a leading couple.”
― Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Nine Political Wives
― Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Nine Political Wives
“You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.”
― Letters to Felice
― Letters to Felice
“This omnividence, as you call it—it is not a common word in Spaceland—does it make you more just, more merciful, less selfish, more loving? Not in the least. Then how does it make you more divine?
I. "More merciful, more loving!" But these are the qualities of women!”
― Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
I. "More merciful, more loving!" But these are the qualities of women!”
― Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
“You’ve enlarged your original mission parameters. That’s what happens in war.”
― When the children come
― When the children come
“Nessuno ebbe animo di venire a vedere che cosa fanno gli uomini quando sanno di dover morire.”
― If This Is a Man • The Truce
― If This Is a Man • The Truce
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