"One of the main functions of a push-up bra is to lower the number of mothers who seem like mothers."
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"There probably was a time when the idea of having a toilet inside a house was repulsive."
"Passing their toilet training is the very last thing that some adults did that has made their parents proud of them."
"Most people would rather eat inside a windowless room in which they have just defecated than eat inside one in which someone else has just farted, even if the room does not have a toilet."
"For breakfast to be called ‘in bed’ instead of ‘on top of a bed,’ the house in which it is about to be eaten has to have at least two rooms (excluding the kitchen); (at least) three, if it has a bathr..."
"The reason is that even in a fantasy there is nothing even remotely erotic about a toilet bowl. In fact, considered as an accoutrement to a sexual encounter, a toilet bowl is a real cold shower."
- Helen DeWitt
"Writers often have the cleanest windows, floors, fridges and toilets, the most up-to-date filing system or the best record for returning calls or e-mails because, in the moment, just about any task se..."
- Mark David Gerson
"I used to think that size does not count, until I realized that most people either find other people’s faeces more disgusting than a bird’s droppings, or they do not find the latter disgusting at all."