In this village the men stayed young and did the gossiping and the women aged with grey evil weariness and stood silently waiting for the men to get … - Shirley Jackson

I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had.

We started out making men in about the state of mind which I suppose created them in the first place — we had run out of kinds of women, and had to think of something else.

I don’t like the younger sister,” Theodora said. “First she stole her sister’s lover, and then she tried to steal her sister’s dishes. No, I don’t like her.