Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.
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Affluence was, quite simply, a question of texture ... The threadbare carpets of infancy, the coconut matting, the ill-laid linoleum, the utility furniture ... had all spoken of a life too near the bones of subsistence, too little padded, too severely worn.
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The middle years, caught between children and parents, free of neither the past stretches back too densely, it is too thickly populated, the future has not yet thinned out.
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The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.
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