“Now that I'd experienced being a woman to a man I was in love with, I'd become self-conscious about being a woman to the world in general. Of course, being female is always indelicate and extreme, like operating heavy machinery. Every woman knows the feeling of being a stack of roving flesh. Sometimes all you've accomplished by the end of the day is to have maneuvered your body through space without grave incident.” KnowsMenWorldEndsSelfSometimesFeelingsBodyCoursesSpaceConsciousFemaleHeavyExtremesFleshYour BodyGravesAccomplishedThe End Of The DayMachineryIncidentsSelf ConsciousBeing A WomanRoving Author:Hilary Thayer Hamann
“Sometimes a day is a symbolic day, and you behave symbolically. Sometimes you search inside for a feeling, and, finding none, you remember that no feeling is frequently the most possible feeling.” SometimesFeelingsRememberFindingsBehaveSymbolic Book:Anthropology of an American Girl: A Novel Source: Anthropology of an American Girl: A Novel