One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

As a woman, I have no country

Was there no safety? No learning by heart of the ways of the world? No guide, no shelter, but all was miracle, and leaping from the pinnacle of a tower into the air? Could it be, even for elderly people, that this was life?--startling, unexpected, unknown?

I [who] am perpetually making notes in the margin of my mind for some final statement.

fishing teaches a stern morality; inculcates a remorseless honesty.

Of the rest some we know to be dead though they walk among us; some are not yet born though they go through the forms of life; others are hundreds of years old though they call themselves thirty-six.

Dance music ... stirs some barbaric instinct - lulled asleep in our sober lives - you forget centuries of civilization in a second, & yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room.