There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter.

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