I Believe That Misconceptions About Oneself That

We Wait, All, For A Story Of Us That Shall Reach To Where We Are. We Listen For Our Own Speaking; And We Hear Much That Seems Our Speaking, Yet Makes Us Strange To Ourselves.

How Our Story Has Been Divided Up Among The Truth-telling Professions! Religion, Philosophy, History, Poetry, Compete With Each Other For Our Ears; And Science Competes With All Together. And For Each We Have A Different Set Of Ears. But, Though We Hear Much, What We Are Told Is As Nothing: None Of It Gives Us Ourselves, Rather Each Story-kind Steals Us To Make Its Reality Of Us.

Woman Is The Symbol To Man Of The Uncleanness Of Bodily Existence, Of Which He Purifies Himself By Putting Her To Noble Uses. She Thus Has For Him A Double, Contradictory Significance; She Is The Subject Of His Bawdry And The Subject Of His Romance.

Every Woman Must Live By Some Sense Of Victory Over Disappointments, And Olympias Was Not The Sort Of Woman To Find Compensation In Her Own Powers Of Self-control And Endurance.

The New "ambiguity" Means, In A Way Adjudged Favorable To Literary, Poetic, Intellectually And Psychologically Well-devised And Praiseworthily Executed Linguistic Performance, Uncertainty Of Meaning, Or Difficulty For The Interpreter In Identifying Just What The Meaning In Question Is: It Means The Old Meanings Of Ambiguity With A Difference. It Means Uncertainty Of Meaning (of A Word Or Combination Of Words) Purposefully Incorporated In A Literary Composition For The Attainment Of The Utmost Possible Variety Of Meaning-play Compressible Within The Verbal Limits Of The Composition.