The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn’t behave that way you would never do anything.
No one but me ever put a hand on me to feel that baby. No one wanted to put his ear against it and listen…You shouldn’t have a baby if there’s no one who wants to feel it kick or listen to it move.
People are either attracted to the unseemly or disapproving of it, or both; yet we try to sound superior to the unseemly by pretending to be amused by it or indifferent to it.
Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she met.
