You are a single woman; you intend to remain one. You've acquired enough sexual experience to feel you belong to your times. You do not have children; you never intended to. Sustained romantic intensities have not been for you. Your explanation {not an untrue one,though not quite sufficient} is that you have let yourself be shaped by so many conventions, expectations, and requirements {institution's, people's}, by so much dread of disapproval, that the discipline of solitude-severe solitude-has been required to give you the sense of an independent selfhood. The intensities of friendship suit you better. Friendship's choreography is for multiple partners: for varied groups and surprisingly sustained duets.
( Margo Jefferson )
[ Negroland ]
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