Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.
I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother and partly because...
But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave...
A lot of people because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed to be the repository of other people's hope.
