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“If there is one great virtue of girlhood, it is the insulation of dreams. We are protected, as children, by our belief in the unreal... I take refuge in these dreams. I dive eagerly into unreal waters. But when I return, dragged unwillingly to the shore like a mermaid in a net, I am bereft again. Womanhood has left me with no place to hide.”