“You will do well in life if you learn to make a man feel important,” my mother said as she kissed me goodbye at the San Antonio airport. “Always let them think they are the smartest.” And this: “You won’t have an orgasm until you find the man you want to marry. Remember that.”Marie Brenner, Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found (NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008), p. 31.
