We get along by a symbiotic adjustment of habits and with a minimum of that pale-mauve hostility you often find among women. - Margaret Atwood

When you alter yourself, the alterations become the truth...

Where to start is the problem, because nothing begins when it begins and nothing's over when it's over, and everything needs a preface: a preface, a postscript, a chart of simultaneous events.

If I roll my eyes and mutter, if I clutch at my heart and scream in horror like a third-rate actress chewing up a mad scene, I do it in private and nobody sees but the bathroom mirror.