Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.
... a woman who has been a nun is never anything else.
... can life be made undignified by any act of man?
Time indeed has very little to do with living except at its beginning or near its end.
Some of us cling to our curses if we haven't anything better to cling to!
Marriage! ... Why, it is like living in a thimble with a hippopotamus!