Sublime

The paradise of the rich is built from the hell of the poor.

I had felt myself stir, and grow warm, and want Kitty. Indeed, I seemed to want her more and more, the further into boyishness I ventured.

Doris Lessing, who made me think in uncomfortably explicit ways about girls and freedom,

Rape was an occupational hazard of being a governess.

that girl, transmuted by bereavement, had gone. And, as far as Juliet could tell, she had never really come back.

like J. D. Salinger or the Unabomber.

Men do seem to think that a woman can be manmade, perhaps because a woman has been a commodity, a chattel, a possession, an object, for most of history.