Numerically speaking, half the population cannot be a minority. Yet when it comes to women, the numbers plainly show that the mathematically impossible is the socially acceptable.


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I have a feeling that once you live through something like this, you become a little bit invincible.
GAYLE FORMAN
It's okay,' he tells me. 'If you want to go. Everyone wants you to stay. I want you to stay more tha...
GAYLE FORMAN
But what if Shakespeare― and Hamlet― were asking the wrong question? What if the real question i...
GAYLE FORMAN
Love is not something you protect. It’s something you risk.
GAYLE FORMAN
In my mind, I am bold and forthright, but what comes out always seems to be so meek and polite.
GAYLE FORMAN
And I bet she'll be a stronger person because of what she's lost today. I have a feeling that once y...
GAYLE FORMAN
He made the arrangements and he took care of it. It was an unusual gesture.
GAYLE FALKENTHAL
It's devastating. You feel uncomfortable, like your underwear is showing.
GAYLE FITCH
Moving to the floor right now would be an act of extremely poor faith. If we are going to have a bip...
GAYLE OSTERBERG
A lot of widows would stick it in a drawer -- not my mom. She flew it until it was worn.
GAYLE MEADORS
A lot of policy makers have no idea what a very small percentage of what they think is affordable ho...
GAYLE ALBEE
How am I supposed to decide this? How can I possibly stay without mom and dad? How can I leave witho...
GAYLE FORMAN
Bribes are the glue that's kept teenagers and parents connected for generations
GAYLE FORMAN
We are like Humpty Dumpty and all these king's horses and all these king's men cannot put us back to...
GAYLE FORMAN
You just work through it. You just hang in there.
GAYLE FORMAN
You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end of the day, it's out of your control.
GAYLE FORMAN
Sleep would be so welcome. A warm blanket of black to erase everything else. Sleep without dreams. I...
GAYLE FORMAN
All I can think about is how fucked up it would be for your life to end here, now. I mean I know tha...
GAYLE FORMAN
This is the you I like. You definitely dressed sexier and are, you know, blond, and that's different...
GAYLE FORMAN
But I'd understand if you chose love, Adam love, over music love. Either way you win. And either way...
GAYLE FORMAN
Adam is crying and somewhere inside of me I am crying, too, because I'm feeling things at last. I'm ...
GAYLE FORMAN
People believe what they want to believe.
GAYLE FORMAN
Girlfriend is such a stupid word. I couldn't stand calling her that. So, we had to get married, so I...
GAYLE FORMAN
I'm not choosing, but I'm running out of fight.
GAYLE FORMAN
Fake it 'till you make it.
GAYLE FORMAN
Losing me will hurt; it will be the kind of pain that won't feel real at first, and when it does, it...
GAYLE FORMAN
Please Mia," he implores. "Don't make me write a song.
GAYLE FORMAN
And that's just it, isn't it? That's how we manage to survive the loss. Because love, it never dies,...
GAYLE FORMAN
One in a million cases; such comforting odds, except when you were the one
GAYLE FORMAN
Everyone has hardship in their life. Everyone has pain.
GAYLE FORMAN
...being Lulu, it made me realize that all my life I've been living in a small, square room, with no...
GAYLE FORMAN