Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.

What a man enjoys about a woman's clothes are his fantasies of how she would look without them

Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.

As I saw it,
all my mother's life, my father
held her down, like
lead strapped to her ankles.

She was
buoyant by nature;
she wanted to travel,
go to the theater, go to museums.
What he wanted
was to lie on the couch
with the Times
over his face,
so that death, when it came,
wouldn't seem a significant change.

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious

Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.