“Was I the only woman in the world who, at my age - and after a lifetime of quite rampant independence - still did not quite feel grown up?”
“People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.”
“Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.”
“I sat there for three hours and did not feel the time or the boredom of our talk and its foolish disconnection. As long as I could hear his voice, I was quite lost, quite blind, quite outside my own self.”
“I think that I was quite a grown-up child, and I have been a pretty childish adult.”
“After all, inside every woman, no matter how grown up she is, there is still a frightened little girl.”