Love wasn't a piece of music you could play over and over again with different interpretations. It actually needed to be improvised as you went along.
Tobsha LearnerWe cannot choose the times we live in. Just as, sometimes, we cannot choose whom we love.
Tobsha LearnerIt seems to me that women are freed from their responsibilities only when they are merry widows or eccentric old spinsters.
Tobsha LearnerNo, what Great Aunt Winifred was suffering from was the persecution every happily single woman suffers: the predictable social condemnation of her independence and childlessness. Dorothy reminded herself of what she'd learned during a university course on feminist history (with a strong Marxist slant): spinsters are a threat to patriarchy.
Tobsha Learner