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Quotation by May Sarton
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as quoted in Women Writers Talking by Janet Todd (1983)"Christmas Letter to a Psychiatrist" (1970)Hilary Stevens, in "Epilogue: Mar" Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing (1965)Hilary Stevens, in Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing (1965)Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing (1965)
May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best—out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters.
May Sarton (b. 1912), U.S. poet, novelist. Hilary Stevens, in Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing, pt. 2 (1965).
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