Famous quotes containing the words relationship, native and/or californians:
“It was a real treat when hed read me Daisy Miller out loud. But wed reached the point in our relationship when, in a straight choice between him and Henry James, Id have taken Henry James any day even if Henry James were dead and not much of a one for the girls when living, either.”
—Angela Carter (19401992)
“It seems as if the more youthful and impressible streams can hardly resist the numerous invitations and temptations to leave their native beds and run down their neighbors channels.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“It is fatally easy for Western folk, who have discarded chastity as a value for themselves, to suppose that it can have no value for anyone else. At the same time as Californians try to re-invent celibacy, by which they seem to mean perverse restraint, the rest of us call societies which place a high value on chastity backward.”
—Germaine Greer (b. 1939)