Taken from Chapter 2 of Victoria Scott’s Autobiography I really want the whole autobiography - or at least more snippets.
If Joey couldn’t see that even if Simone had had one child her whole life, it would still have been a family as proper as any that Joey had - Simone liked Joey still, loved her as a friend, but it would never be the same. Absolutely. It's like the comment Joey makes to Frieda, which I assume Simone never hears about, that "Simone is too dear and sweet to spend all her life teaching". I love the child-Joey, but the adult often sets my teeth on edge. I know she's probably wish-fulfillment for EBD, but ...
Sylvia/Daphne Now I want to go racing off and work out when this would fit into the history of sexualities, before or after The Well of Loneliness and whether Sylvia and Daphne might not have just got away with being two maiden ladies - as I think Mary Renault and her partner did all their lives. Hmm.
Con Maynard/Roger Richardson: But sometimes - sometimes - she wondered if she hadn’t paid too dearly. Absolutely! Oh, I'm so glad that I live in a time and place when it's (almost) easy to be a single woman!
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I really want the whole autobiography - or at least more snippets.
If Joey couldn’t see that even if Simone had had one child her whole life, it would still have been a family as proper as any that Joey had - Simone liked Joey still, loved her as a friend, but it would never be the same.
Absolutely. It's like the comment Joey makes to Frieda, which I assume Simone never hears about, that "Simone is too dear and sweet to spend all her life teaching". I love the child-Joey, but the adult often sets my teeth on edge. I know she's probably wish-fulfillment for EBD, but ...
Sylvia/Daphne
Now I want to go racing off and work out when this would fit into the history of sexualities, before or after The Well of Loneliness and whether Sylvia and Daphne might not have just got away with being two maiden ladies - as I think Mary Renault and her partner did all their lives. Hmm.
Con Maynard/Roger Richardson: But sometimes - sometimes - she wondered if she hadn’t paid too dearly.
Absolutely! Oh, I'm so glad that I live in a time and place when it's (almost) easy to be a single woman!
Are you going to keep using this LJ? Should I friend it/you?
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