Sublime

They were kept as fallow gardens ... but thankfully there was always wild seed which arrived on the wind.

Psychologists, I recollected, have ascertained that the comparative inferiority of women in contexts described as purely intellectual, is attributable to the greater discouragement and repression of their curiosity when children. “Thank you, Sally. But I’m quite happy here, you know.” “You’re not. Are you, Mel?” “No. I’m not.” “Well then?” One day

But ten years passed, no phone calls or letters. In the end, she rescued herself.

Instead, after a year, the twins scattered, their lives splitting as evenly as their shared egg. Stella became white and Desiree married the darkest man she could find.

Though flowers as the sexual organs of plants often have both male and female reproductive parts, they are routinely represented as feminine, and phenomena that have been feminized are often dismissed as ornamental and inconsequential.

In fairy tales there is the leitmotif called the “thrown object.” The heroine who is being pursued takes a magical comb from her hair and throws it down behind her, where it grows into a forest of trees so thick you couldn’t poke a pitchfork between them. Or the heroine has a little vial of water, which she uncorks, sprinkling its contents behind h

power of mother-love,

“Some of the equipment in the shop would be difficult for you to use,” he told her. “And to be honest, Miss Walker, having a girl like you in the classroom would be very distracting to the boys in the class.” He meant it as a compliment, she knew. But she also knew that it wasn’t.

God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it inside find it.