“She wanted to exist only as a conscious flower, prolonging and preserving herself”
“Clarissa said she would buy the flowers herself.”
“She does not exist for herself. She exists for and through her community.”
“Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.”
“The novel is, above all, an intense experience of prolonged intimacy with another consciousness.”
“There are those times when a woman fears she is on the brink of extinction or that the dreams and wants she had for her life are endangered. It is then she must declare herself a refuge and take whatever measures to preserve her natural elements."--Portion of the Sea”