The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom. – Guy de Maupassant
I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing. – Anne Lamott