In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases - John Irving

"so my grandmother was not without humanity. and if she wore cocktail dresses when she labored in the garden, they were cocktail dresses she no longer intended to wear to cocktail parties. even in her rose garden she did not want to appear underdressed. if the dresses got too dirty from gardening, she threw them out. when my mother suggested to her that she might have them cleaned, my grandmother said, "what? and have those people at the cleaners what i was doing in a dress to make it that dirty?"

from my grandmother i learned that logic is relative."

Jenny Fields discovered that you got more respect from shocking other people than you got from trying to live your own life with a little privacy.

…there is no nakedness that compares to being naked in front of someone for the first time.