To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!
“Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.”
“I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.”