Anything Can Have Happened In Oklahoma. Practically

Don't You Hate People Who Say They're Not Complaining And Then Complain?

I Sat Staring Up At A Shelf In My Workroom From Which Thirty-one Books Identically Dressed In Neat Dark Green Leather Stared Back At Me With A Sort Of Cold Hostility Like Children Who Resent Their Parents. Don't Stare At Us Like That! They Said. Don't Blame Us If We Didn't Turn Out To Be The Perfection You Expected. We Didn't Ask To Be Brought Into The World.

No Woman Ought To Pretend She's Intelligent. And If She Is She Ought To Have The Intelligence To Pretend She Isn't.

Emma Mcchesney Was Engaged In That Nerve-wracking Process Known As Getting Things Out Of The Way. When Emma Mcchesney Aimed To Get Things Out Of The Way She Did Not Use A Shovel; She Used A Road-drag.

Most Of The Men Regarded Europe As A Wine List. In Their Mental Geography Rheims, Rhine, Moselle, Bordeaux, Champagne, Or Würzburg Were Not Localities But Libations.