My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.

  • -- Sara Paretsky 莎拉帕勒斯基

我的父母是自由派知识分子,但他们甚至希望我呆在家里照顾弟弟妹妹,做家务。

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If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.

如果你是一名作家,你会把自己置身于一堵沉默的墙后,无论你在做什么,开车、散步还是做家务,你都可以写作,因为你有这样的空间。

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

大自然告诉我们,随着智慧的增长,人们承受痛苦的能力也会增强,只有拥有最高程度的智慧,痛苦才会达到顶峰。

Liberalism is the supreme form of generosity; it is the right which the majority concedes to minorities and hence itis the noblest cry that has ever resounded on this planet.

自由主义是慷慨的最高形式;这是大多数人向少数人承认的权利,因此这是这个星球上有史以来最崇高的呼声。

My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.

我的父母都是大学教授,这让我想要质疑权威、标准和传统。

You can play golf with liberals, be neighbors with them, go out to dinner. I just don't want them in power.

你可以和自由主义者打高尔夫球,和他们做邻居,一起出去吃饭。我只是不想让他们掌权。

I watched my mother waste her life on housework and swore I'd never do that. Dave does the cooking.

我看着妈妈把生命浪费在家务上,发誓我永远不会那样做。戴夫做饭。

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

如果你从来没有被你的孩子恨过,那么你也从来没有做过父母。