I must work, so as not to be a fool, to get on, to become a journalist, because that's what I want!... I can't imagine that I woul...d have to lead the same sort of life as Mummy ... and all the women who do their work and are then forgotten. I must have something besides a husband and children, something that I can devote myself to!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Happiness does not await us all. One needn't be a prophet to say that there will be more grief and pain than serenity and money. T...hat is why we must hang on to one another.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Children can't be a center of life and a reason for being. They can be a thousand things that are delightful, interesting, satisfy...ing, but they can't be a wellspring to live from. Or they shouldn't be.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The myth of Demeter and Persephone, then, illustrates the power of the Greek religion as a religion of pure ideas--of conceptions,... which having no link on historical fact, yet, because they arose naturally out of the spirit of man, and embodied, in adequate symbols, his deepest thoughts concerning the conditions of his physical and spiritual life, maintained their hold through many changes, and are still not without a solemnising power even for the modern mind, which has once admitted them as recognised and habitual inhabitants; and, abiding thus for the elevation and purifying of our sentiments, long after the earlier and simpler races of their worshippers have passed away, they may be a pledge to us of the place in our culture, at once legitimate and possible, of the associations, the conceptions, the imagery, of Greek religious poetry in general, of the poetry of all religions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When the boat comes to the bridge, it will go through; when the cart gets to the mountains, there will be a way to get over them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mental health data from the 1950's on middle-aged women showed them to be a particularly distressed group, vulnerable to depressio...n and feelings of uselessness. This isn't surprising. If society tells you that your main role is to be attractive to men and you are getting crow's feet, and to be a mother to children and yours are leaving home, no wonder you are distressed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »