Strong women are absolutely unpredictable.
To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.
People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.
I was good and bad, but never wicked.
Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.
Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness; she was a marginal outsider, a secret infidel of a certain sort.