No woman born in this world is immune to the pleasures of being good. We are born to goodness; it is our birthright. Only sheer grit and pigheaded obstinacy make us demand the right to be bad, for we know that only by being bad can we become ourselves. - Erica Jong, Parachutes and Kisses
"The faces of the dead were upturned into the streams of water that poured over them like the irrepressible mechanism in death of their own tears...her songs had no words, and he kissed her face and tasted the salt of her tears"