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Junk food for the brain,
Alas, we women seldom get the life we would choose for ourselves. Instead, our lot is chosen for us, by those who claim to know best, and before we know it, we’ve been shaped into someone we don’t recognize, remade in someone else’s image.
The female sex has always been troublesome for those in power, because we see things, know things.
She wasn’t fond of rules and didn’t believe in regrets—or sin, which she claimed was a ruse to make women apologize for what they wanted.
people have ways of clinging to ideas that make the world seem nicer than it is. And perhaps that’s to be expected. When life is hard, it helps to cling to illusion. I suppose the letters were that for me once. But life has taught me that even in fairy tales, the heroine must make her own magic—or not, as the case may be.”
“Life has a way of letting us know when something’s over. It’s not always pleasant, but it’s always obvious if we’re paying attention.
I refuse to let someone else’s rules cheat me of my bit of joy.
What else might she have accomplished had a succession of heartaches not altered the course of her life?
