“They took people at face value. If you did your job or held up your end, and treated them with the passing respect they accorded you, you were all right.”
“As you will see, being Ned was often an uncomfortable and alienating experience, and far from finding myself in him, I usually felt kept from myself in some elemental way.”
“A lot of men's bluster is really indicating how much the esteem of women means to them, and not how little. I was surprised, too, to find that men care as much as they do.”
