"The life of a woman may be divided into three epochs; in the first she dreams of love, in the second she makes love in the third she regrets it."

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How our story has been divided up among the truth-telling professions! Religion, philosophy, history, poetry, compete with each other for our ears; and science competes with all together. And for each we have a different set of ears. But, though we hear much, what we are told is as nothing: none of it gives us ourselves, rather each story-kind steals us to make its reality of us.

— Laura Riding