twenty-eight years and a million words
About a month ago, my girlfriend got her hair coloured, and it's a lot more blonde now. And now she has a new shampoo that really brings out the blonde. Mmmm, my new blonde girlfriend.
It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
—John Steinbeck, Cannery Row