One loses the capacity to grieve as a child grieves, or to rage as a child rages: hotly, despairingly, with tears of passion. One grows up, one becomes civilized, one learns one's manners, and consequently can no longer manage these two functions - sorrow and anger - adequately.
Anita BrooknerGood women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.
Anita BrooknerI was brought up among the sort of self-important women who had a husband as one has an alibi.
Anita Brookner