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If she pressed herself to learn, she would be aware of her own limitations and that frustrated her.
Every mother engages in an act of parenting they know isn’t a great idea. They allow something to slide. And this is the thing that causes the child to develop a personality and also all their worst inclinations and predispositions and habits. The mother’s neglect seals the child’s doom. Thus we can safely blame all crimes on mothers.
She didn’t know how she would make it through her whole life.
Every decent friendship comes with a drop of hatred. But that hatred is like honey in the tea. It makes it addictive.
But the judges refused to let an unlikeable girl like her win the competition.
That was perhaps a definition of innocence: not knowing what one was capable of.
Perhaps no child thinks they are a child.
She had done this herself. That was always the hardest pill to swallow. If only we could have the luxury of blaming other people for the situations we find ourselves in.
The female body was particularly absorbent when it came to shame. If you wrung out any woman’s body, you would discover it was soaked in shame.
Once a woman has been off on an adventure, they are completely unknowable. They are unpredictable.”
How much more intense joy would be if you were allowed to express it.
She couldn’t break off an engagement; they had been walking together in public! But she would do it nonetheless.
The world is terrified of a certain type of monstrous woman.
How could you not love someone who you secretly feared was better than you?
