My mother-in-law speaks not a word of English. I speak not a word of Tajiki. So I smile at her ingratiatingly and she fixes me with a beady eye.
There's nothing so aphrodisiacal for a woman as money and success.
In junior high school I was an object of pure ridicule for my dress...
What is amazing for a woman of my age is that I change as the world is changing-and changing very very fast. I don't think my mother had that opportunity to change.
