Ursula Orange

“Well, mummy, when you care about a thing, you know —I mean really care. . . . Besides Florence and Jane take their work in their stride. I mean I’d never describe them as being sort of chained to their work at all. Their real life—I mean their real life,” said Leslie with meaning, “goes on all the time beside it.”
― Ursula Orange, Begin Again

“She could not remember that she had ever been like that as a young girl herself. But Sylvia, it appeared, believed that if you didn’t think things out for yourself (and the conclusions to these thoughts were inevitably in direct opposition to what Mrs. Perry called ordinary decency and Sylvia alluded to as middle-class morality) then you were an unfulfilled person, and consequently an unhappy one. “Well, anyway, I’m not unhappy,” said Mrs. Perry, emphatically.”
― Ursula Orange, Begin Again