I am reading Secrets of the Flesh, Judith Thurman’s biography of Colette. Two great quotes emerged early on:
“When my body thinks…all my flesh has a soul.” Colette in Retreat from Love
And then this, in Thurman’s masterly introduction:
“A coherent personality aspires, like a work of art, to contain its conflicts without resolving them dogmatically.”
This is so [...]
