"Such is frequently the fate, and the stern development, of the feminine character and person, when the woman has encountered, and lived through, an experience of peculiar severity. If she be all tenderness, she will die. If she survive, the tenderness will either be crushed out of her, or--and the outward semblance is the same--crushed so deeply into her hear that it can never show itself more. The latter is perhaps the truest theory. She who has once been a woman, and ceased to be so, might at any moment become a woman again, if there were only the magic touch to effect the transformation."
--Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlett Letter
" .. you know what i do when i feel completely unoriginal ..
I'm doing ok. I know hey, I can't believe it either.
