Tag: marriage

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Love Is Not All

As Edna St. Vincent Millay said, love is not all. Only the most important thing.

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how adversity can strengthen a marriage

When Do Two Become One?

I’ve been reading an amazing book this week. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout. Strout is a beautiful writer, so skilful with words and images. Her work puts me in mind of Alice Munro, and of another Canadian writer, David Adams …

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Anita Brookner

On Her Own: Spinsters and Women Who Write about Them

Apparently Greta Garbo never actually said, “I want to be alone.” Except as a line in the movie Grand Hotel. But she was. At least alone in the way that society defines women who don’t marry as being “alone.” I’ve …

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