Remarkable Creatures

by Tracy Chevalier

I have long noted that people tend to lead with one particular feature, a part of the face or body.

It was something. It was enough, for me.

We had not meant our choice to cut us off from our past, but it did. We had only the present and the future to think of

It is so tedious being a lady sometimes.

Married women were set like jelly in a mold, whereas spinsters like me were formless and unpredictable.