Desire creates its own object.
to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
The past is a sorry country.
Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
Every generation reinvents the wheel - and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman's burdens.
There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.