Women with a vote can defy the church and public opinion, without the vote they are afraid to speak out on birth control as it may prevent them getting the vote. Sherry was valiantly trying to get some sexual attention, a valentine's worth of attraction, and that is perfectly normal and even admirable. It's not a crime or a weakness to want sexual attention, as much as society wants to make young women feel that way. I'm asked a question, no answer presents itself in my brain, and I begin to answer anyway. My mouth moves and the words come out, propelled by pure syntax or by the momentum of language, while I watch from a distance, as curious as anybody else to hear what I'm going to say.
Some minds go hungry all their life without knowing it.
People always seemed to know half of history, and to get it confused with the other half. The subtle and varied pains springing from the higher sensibility that accompanies higher culture are perhaps less pitiable than that dreary absence of impersonal enjoyment and consolation which leaves ruder minds to the perpetual urgent companionship of their own griefs and discontents. I've never had a care. When we were first married it was the same. No, no, Hulda, he'd say, I won't have you worn out like that.