Sublime

the old woman’s injunction to “be proper” kills off any opportunity to expand.

There she must remain proper and silent ... no overt yearning allowed, and more specifically, no fulfillment of that yearning. This is the beginning of soul famine for the creative spirit.

direct gift from the gods,

On her fourteenth birthday, he gives her a bowdlerized translation of Ovid’s Metamorphosis.

Maggie’s destiny arrives one afternoon without a clarion call. It comes on cat feet, like everything else in the world that has the power to destroy you. She had

Psychologically, to be without the pelt causes a woman to pursue what she thinks she should do, rather than what she truly wishes.