“There is something threatening about a woman who is not occupied with children. There is something at-loose-ends feeling about such a woman. What is she going to do instead? What sort of trouble will she make?”
― Motherhood
― Motherhood
“He was a pile of American garbage and she feared she would love him forever.”
― French Exit
― French Exit
“To fit oneself into the smallest spaces in the hopes of being loved -that is entirely womanly”
― Motherhood
― Motherhood
“I’m not the kind of woman who intuitively understands or sympathises with other women, probably because I don’t understand or sympathise all that much with myself.”
― Second Place
― Second Place
“A little tap on the window pane, as though something had struck it, followed by a plentiful light falling sound, as of grains of sand being sprinkled from a window overhead, gradually spreading, intensifying, acquiring a regular rhythm, becoming fluid, sonorous, musical, immeasurable, universal: it was the rain.”
― Swann’s Way
― Swann’s Way
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