“Most women work not from yearning for fulfilment but yearning to pay t...” — Lionel Shriver Quote

Most women work not from yearning for fulfilment but yearning to pay the mortgage.

Outside, she thought that there ought to be a word for it: the air temperature that was perfectly neither hot nor cold. One degree lower, and she might have felt a faint misgiving about not having brought a jacket. One degree higher, and a skim of sweat might have glistened at her hairline. But at this precise degree, she required neither wrap nor breeze. Were there a word for such a temperature, there would have to be a corollary for the particular ecstasy of greeting it - the heedlessness, the needlessness, the suspended lack of urgency, as if time could stop, or should. Usually temperature was a battle; only at this exact fulcrum was it an active delight.

In the era of Venus Williams, girliness and goo isn't the way to every woman's heart. Yet publishers presume that women only buy a book that looks soft and that appears to be all about women, even if it isn't. Yet women, unlike men, buy books by and about both sexes.

I'm sometimes asked if I get bored with talking about 'Kevin,' and of course, the short answer is yes. Nevertheless, after a long slog in the literary trenches, I never take a single reader for granted and always remind myself that for new readers the unfolding story is fresh.

Even the once simple home mortgage now has so many flavors and styles and variations that it is difficult for people to make a decision.

I'm not sure comics sustain mortgage, and the house, and three kids.

Opt for a fixed-rate rather than an adjustable-rate mortgage.

There was a time when I couldn't pay my mortgage, and I was really famous.

If you rent, the rent goes up every year. But if you buy a 30-year mortgage, the cost is fixed.