No amount of money or sex could take the place of friendship, loyalty and a girlie heart-to-heart. “Sex [you] could, and did, get everywhere,” she once wrote. “Warmth was rare.”
—The Economist, in ‘Obituary: Judith Krantz died on June 22nd’
(Also: why I believe that sexual infidelity is immaterial. Emotional infidelity is what really matters. Yet, the society considers them the reverse.)
Reason, language, gender—and also loyalty, morality, decency—simply aren’t currency in the carnal world.
This world is value-neutral.
This world is inside out.
Ariel Levy, in “The Rules Do Not Apply”
The last time I saw my Grandma Ruth alive, she was 93 years old. She had been bedridden for three years, but her mind was intact. I asked her how she had lived so long.
“Well,” she said, “You have to eat. You have to exercise. And you have to find a man to have sex with. That’s very important.”
Use my marker 