We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
The chief thing about a woman -- who is much of a woman -- is that in the long run she is not to be had... She is not to be caught by any of the catch-words, love, beauty, honor, duty, worth, work, salvation -- none of them -- not in the long run. In the long run she only says "Am I satisfied, or is there some beastly dissatisfaction gnawing and gnawing inside me." And if there is some dissatisfaction, it is physical, at least as much as psychic, sex as much as soul.
Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.
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