Lonesome? God, no! From the day the kids are born, if it's not one thing, it's another. After all those years of being responsible... for them, you finally get to the point where you want to scream: "Fall out of the nest already, you guys, will you? It's time."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We give lovely parties that last through the night, I dress as a woman and scream with delight,... We wake up at lunch time and find we're still tight. What could be duller than that?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their sympathy and their kin...d-hearted jokes, it would only make me want to scream all the more. If I talk, everyone thinks I'm showing off; when I'm silent they think I'm ridiculous; rude if I answer, sly if I get a good idea, lazy if I'm tired, selfish if I eat a mouthful more than I should, stupid, cowardly, crafty, etc. etc.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Faced with even a temporary delay or absence, children pound and scream and bawl; but as soon as the situation changes, they are b...afflingly sunny, and take their gratification with relish, or feel secure again when mother returns. It is said that "children cannot wait," but just the contrary is true. It is children who can wait, by making dramatic scenes (not otherwise than religious people get through hours of stress by singing hymns). They have a spontaneous mechanism to cushion even minor troubles. Rather it is the adults who have inhibited their spontaneous expression, who cannot wait; we swallow our disappointment and always taste what we have swallowed. For where the occasions of passion occur, where there is actual frustration and misery, and yet anger and grief are not explosively released, then the disposition itself is soured, and such happiness as follows is never full and unclouded.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fiddle-dee-dee! War, war, war. This war talk's spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. I get so bored I could scream. Bes...ides, there isn't going to be any war.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ethical and cultural desegregation. It is a contradiction in terms to scream race pride and equality while at the same time spurni...ng Negro teachers and self-association.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »