Pigs in Heaven

Sympathizing over the behavior of men is the baking soda of women’s friendships, it seems, the thing that makes them bubble and rise.

In natural systems there is no guilt or virtue, only success or failure, measured by survival and nothing more. Time is the judge. If you manage to pass on what you have to the next generation, then what you did was right.

But kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run.

Sympathizing over the behavior of men is the baking soda of women’s friendships, it seems, the thing that makes them bubble and rise

Getting old is just a matter of getting easier to see through, until all your failing insides are in plain view and everyone’s business