“Do you know how hard it is to make a home?... That's something that a woman does from inside herself. You do it in the face of all sorts of opposition. Husbands are very appreciative when it works out well. But they're not that anxious to help. It's understandable. They don't know how.”
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“I suspect most of life takes place in the interstices of what's already been articulated.”
“Human beings being what they are, order spreads, given half a chance, almost as fast as confusion.”
“Pain ... after you've lived with it long enough, isn't pain anymore. It's something else.”
“It's only ... when we're stripped of purpose that we know who we are.”