Belligerents always abolish war after a war.
But what are wishes, compared with longings?
I wish I could be a grandmother. It is wanton extravagance to have had a youth with no one to tell of it to when one grows old.
Happiness is an immunity.
Only two things are real to me: my love and my death. In between them, I merely exist as a scatter of senses.
Oh, I am all for singing. If I had had children I should have hounded them into choirs & choral societies, and if they weren't good enough for that, I would have sent them out, to sing in the streets.