Safe at Last in the Middle Years Quotes

“[...] we should consider the possibility that life can be constructed as a process of losing our false fears, our overly pessimistic anticipations. [...] it would provide a brand new evaluation of adult knowledge, no longer regularly identified with clear-eyed pain, but also, and perhaps primarily, with hard-earned relief.”
― Margaret Morganroth Gullette, Safe at Last in the Middle Years: The Invention of the Midlife Progress Novel: Saul Bellow, Margaret Drabble, Anne Tyler, and John Updike