That’s how we got committed to this enormous delusion - because that’s what it is, an enormous, obscene delusion - this idea that people have to resign from real life and ‘settle down’ when they have families - It’s the great sentimental lie of the suburbs, and I’ve been making you subscribe to it all this time. I’ve been making you live by it! My God I’ve even gone as far as to work up this completely, soap-opera picture of my self – and I guess this is what really brought it home to me – this picture of myself as the girl who could have been The Actress if she hadn’t gotten married too young.
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