In postwar rural England, Hilary Mantel grew up convinced that the most improbable of accomplishments, including "chivalry, horsemanship, and swordplay," were within her grasp. Once married, however, she acquired a persistent pain that led to destructive drugs and patronizing psychiatry, ending in an ineffective but irrevocable surgery. There would be no children; in herself s...
In postwar rural England, Hilary Mantel grew up convinced that the most improbable of accomplishments, including "chivalry, horsemanship, and swordplay," were within her grasp. Once married, however, she acquired a persistent pain that led to destructive drugs and patronizing psychiatry, ending in an ineffective but irrevocable surgery. There would be no children; in herself she found instead one novel, and then another.
When I was a young woman I didn't want children. I was wary of the trap that seemed ready to spring. I was ambitious on my own account, to make a mark on the world. I didn’t want to carry someone else's thwarted expectations. If I failed to make something of myself, wouldn't I heap my frustration onto my daughter? And she, in course of time, onto her daughter? When is it a woman's turn, I wanted to know, to get something for herself, and not at second hand through her children? I was good for more than breeding: that was my opinion. (查看原文)
He wrote a small, exact, engineer's hand, and his mind was subdued to a discipline, but inside his chest his heart would knock about, like a wasp in an inverted glass. (查看原文)
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读了chapter:show your workings 谢谢好友的推荐。
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ill, feminism, moving, poor, strange family structure and how to sense the ghosts around herself.
0 有用 ISFP要变成ISFJ 2020-02-12 19:58:07
ill, feminism, moving, poor, strange family structure and how to sense the ghosts around herself.
0 有用 †ardis 2018-04-09 21:38:33
读了chapter:show your workings 谢谢好友的推荐。