The Lydia Steptoe Stories
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...By this I mean that I am debating with myself whether I shall place myself in some good man’s hands and become a mother, or if I shall become wanton and go out in the world and make a place for myself.
Somehow I think I shall become a wanton.
It is more to my taste. At least I think it is.
The Diary of a Dangerous Child
...and my heart stopped beating, and I could feel all the childish uncertainties I had suffered become hard and firm, and I knew that I should never again be a child.
Madame Grows Older: A Journal at the Dangerous Age
“Alice,” I said, “be a man, pull yourself together. You still pulse with the eternal scheme of things. You know you do.” But my pulse tires me!
The Diary of a Dangerous Child
Many days have passed; I have written nothing. Can it be that I have changed? I will hold this thought solitary for a day.
Madame Grows Older: A Journal at the Dangerous Age
My God, as I sit here I realize that I am perishable! O if that brute of an Einstein had only taken a fancy to my relativity! Time and space are my enemies. If it were not for time, I should not be dangerous, and if it were not for space, I should not feel so limited! How cruel is reason! How sharper than a serpent’s tooth is meditation! How subtle is the lack of reason!
The Diary of a Dangerous Child
In another year I shall be fifteen, a woman must grow young again. I have cut off my hair and I am asking myself nothing.
Absolutely nothing.
The Diary of a Dangerous Child
One must not look inward too much, while the inside is yet tender. I do not wish to frighten myself until I can stand it.
The Diary of a Small Boy
I may not be old enough to put what I feel politely, but I feel what I feel, even if it is unpopular.
The Diary of a Dangerous Child
I have succeeded. No one guesses that my mind teems. No one suspects that I have come into my own, as they say.
But I have.