Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds--a sacrifice to the vanity of ageing adolescents.... I...n 1953, excess is always a comfort, and sometimes a career.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But I must needs take my petulance, contrasting it with my accustomed morning hopefulness, as a sign of the ageing of appetite, of... a decay in the very capacity of enjoyment. We need some imaginative stimulus, some not impossible ideal which may shape vague hope, and transform it into effective desire, to carry us year after year, without disgust, through the routine- work which is so large a part of life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The misery of the middle-aged woman is a grey and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resent...ment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high- heeled s...hoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why not walk in the aura of magic that gives to the small things of life their uniqueness and importance? Why not befriend a toad ...today?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and ...time to persuade analysands to foist their problems on to the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defence. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The climacteric marks the end of apologizing. The chrysalis of conditioning has once for all to break and the female woman finally... to emerge.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Older women can afford to agree that femininity is a charade, a matter of coloured hair, écru lace and whalebones, the kind of sl...ap and tat that transvestites are in love with, and no more.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »