People are least aware of others when demonstrating their own power over them.
Hope is one of those no-win-no-fee things, and although it needs some encouragement to survive, its existence doesn't necessarily prove anything.
We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.
Modern morality is all about perception.
It is living, not thinking, as a feminist that has become the challenge.
Even if they knew the truth of their own feelings, most mothers would be socially and emotionally incapable of revealing it.