" ...I don't with my heart believe that a woman can live alone. When she is very young and trying to learn what life is about, when she is full of ideas about Tolstoy or Van Gogh, then she can live alone, or just bounce off people and be happy. But when she is older--just old enough to be aware of mystery and force--then she can't be alone. If everyone had to keep to his separate cell no one would want to live.

[Jan Deverell] "

― , The Widow of Bath