It seems to me that women are freed from their responsibilities only when they are merry widows or eccentric old spinsters.
Tobsha LearnerTo be desired by those who are themselves highly desirable is in itself an aphrodisiac.
Tobsha LearnerA man who denies his past is a man who truly denies himself a future, for he refuses to know himself, and to deny knowledge of oneself is to stumble through life as handicapped as the blind mute.
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