Liberty is terrifying but it is also exhilarating. - Germaine Greer

Sorrow is not itself evidence of maladjustment but of the adjustment process itself.

The new ideology of marriage needed its mythology and
Shakespeare supplied it. Protestant moralists sought to redeem
marriage from the status of a remedy against fornication by underplaying
the sexual component and addressing the husband as the
wife’s friend.

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.