Through marriage and divorce, through too little money or too much, too many children or too few, through sorrow and joy and all the longings that were not and never could be named, women, I learned, adapted» I watched my mother do it, and my grandmother too. If ever there was living proof that Lessing had scored a bull’s eye with that one, I was it–. «I thought of Doris Lessing’s observation that «A woman without a man cannot meet a man, any man, of any age, without thinking, even if it´s for a half second, ‘Perhaps this is THE man'» «I was not unfamiliar with such symptoms: it was the behavior of a woman reacting to a man who attracts her» «I found myself deriving some small satisfaction from the belief that I no longer was susceptible to being compromised in such a way by a man» «Life’s like that, with awesome impersonality it ambushes us, changing our lives and the lives of those we love in an instant» «For a while, at least, I wanted to stand back from these roles and see who emerged! «You are a woman in search of an adventure. «You need to get back into the narrative of your own life» «Step out and experience the world without recording it first in a reporter’s notebook» Without Reservations, the travel of an independent woman
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