Sublime

Tillie Olsen wrote: “In the twenty years I bore and reared my children . . . the simplest circumstances for creation did not exist.” It was a physical problem, a time problem; it was also a question of selfhood. “The obligation to be physically attractive and patient and nurturing and docile and sensitive and deferential . . . contradicts and must

Your ~ing thoughts sound like this: “Take a nap.” “Don’t psycho-call him, it’s 2 AM.” “Stop eating.” “Put down the drink and go home.” “Get off of Facebook—you love yourself more than that.”