Phobias, philias, manias, perversities, and mental disorders are abnormal instincts. ... Phobias, philias, manias, perversities, and mental disorders teach us how normal instincts work (=how the mind works).

I'll take the threes, fours and fives and go to the playground.

In the most egregious examples, these stories harness a particular woman’s travails without acknowledging the systems and forces that contributed to her treatment and how these systems persist in our own time.

In this ambivalent combination of masculine fistiness and feminine cushioning, Martine sensed the vigor and sparkle of life, […]