"Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter" Quotes

I was on the point of discovering that the individual is more important than the collective.

I was uneasy about myself; I wanted to become someone, but I didn't know how.

I had been supremely happy, and it had never occurred to me to question whether I was right or wrong to be so.

I was discovering the contradictions in my own nature, and experiencing the agonies of inner conflict.

I felt a need to trust myself, and to find the best of myself.

I would no longer be content to be a mere woman, I would be an individual too.

I was sick of being a child, and even more sick of being a girl.

I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely.

I was a little girl; I was a young woman; I was a mother. I was going to be all of them at once.

I was discovering that I was and individual, and that I had the right to my own life.