“The attractiveness of their partners was not one of the overriding priorities in the make desire for sex and it came a lot lower down the list than availability.” ~~ Simone Mondesir (Book: Coming Up For Air)
“Since men discovered that fact that women have hormones, they seem to think that everything we do is dictated by them, but some of us have brains too.” ~~ Simone Mondesir (Book: Coming Up For Air)
“Any woman who was foolish enough to believe that a man meant the same as a woman did when he said the words ‘I love you’ or ‘I’ll call you’ needed her head examined – particularly if the former was said either before or during sex and the latter when the man was walking out of the door after it.” ~~ Simone Mondesir (Book: Coming Up For Air)
“You should never try to love anyone for their sake or anyone else’s, including yours. You either love someone or you don’t. It’s as simple as that.” ~~ Simone Mondesir (Book: Coming Up For Air)
“Most people seemed diminished by love, or at least by what they described as love.” ~~ Simone Mondesir (Book: Coming Up For Air)
“It’s not part of the UN Declaration of Human Rights that everyone should fall in love. If we spent less time looking for love and more time looking for getting on with our lives, the world would be a much happier place.” ~~ Simone Mondesir (Book: Coming Up For Air)
“Never apologize for sensitivity. More people should have it. The world would be a much nicer place.” ~~ Simone Mondesir (Book: Coming Up For Air)
“Nice. A word that should be expunged from the English language: so vague, so indeterminate. A word used to avoid feeling. Nothing nice could feel anything.” ~~ Simone Mondesir (Book: Coming Up For Air)
“Young parents raise children in ignorance, older parents raise them in fear.” ~~ Simone Mondesir (Book: Coming Up For Air)
“While it was possible to discuss just about any form of sexual behavior over the dinner table, it was still taboo to be thought to criticize the behavior of other people’s children.” ~~ Simone Mondesir (Book: Coming Up For Air)
“There’s a myth and believe me, it is a myth, that great writers drink a lot. Maybe some can, but that’s nothing to do with whether they are great or not. A writer needs discipline.” ~~ Simone Mondesir (Book: Coming Up For Air)
“There’s nothing worse than a woman playing with her hair. At best it looked as though she was trying to catch masculine attention, at worst that she was insecure.” ~~ Simone Mondesir (Book: Coming Up For Air)
“Don’t rush into a relationship and children just because you feel you might be missing out on something. Children aren’t everything.” ~~ Simone Mondesir (Book: Coming Up For Air)
“It was the way gossip worked. Good news made people feel envious, which in turn made them feel bad so they tended to keep it to themselves. However, as long as it wasn’t happening to them, bad news made people feel good because whatever their difficulties, they could point and say: ‘well at least I don’t have their problems.’” ~~ Simone Mondesir (Book: Coming Up For Air)
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