A happy childhood is perhaps the most-fortunate gift in life.
No future life could heal the degradation of having been a woman. Religion in the world had nothing but insults for women.
Coercion. The unpardonable crime.
Life is creation - self and circumstances, the raw material.
Death must be got through as life had been, just somehow.
The question was not how to get a job, but how to live by such jobs as I could get.