Status Updates From Il pozzo della solitudine

"All your life I've felt very strangely towards you... I've felt a kind of physical repulsion, a desire not to touch or to be touched by you - a terrible thing for a mother to feel - it has often made me deeply unhappy. I've often felt that I was being unjust, unnatural - but now I know that my instinct was right; it is you who are unnatural, not I"

'Then Stephen took Angela in her arms, and she kissed her full on the lips, as a lover.'

'She was what came of this higher education - a lonely, unfulfilled, middle-aged spinster. Anna didn't want that for her daughter.'

'... above all, they were firmly conservative in spirit, as conservative as the marriage service itself, and almost as insistent upon sex distinction.'