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WINSOME (sexuality ("wit and clit" ("wit perhaps is the…
WINSOME
sexuality
"i cant read this. i am a widow"
"wit and clit"
"wit perhaps is the only real weapon for survival"
ownership vs fear
jealousy/competitive
"Marilyn who was pathologically mean"
-sympathy -narrow minded
unjustified petty attacks
"if i was less of a winsome and more of an abagail"
Helen/Penelope
psyche of women
too quick to judge "...dont get it"
renewal, re energising
"it was really more for me"
labels
'widows', definition of herself
adjectives tend to revolve around ideas/sympathy
at first she conforms to this label
description of mundane day to day activities
expectations
insecurity
"i felt foolish"
fear of judgement
"it was not about possessing youth but being in touch with it"
burden
lonely - "in our society being alone can make one feel rather silly"
"its hard to understand sympathy... when really it cuts like a knife"
patriarchal sociey
"we all started to read the business pages when the husbands died"
Penelope doing the farm
roles changing based on circumstance
survival
ritual
boredom
widow, motherhood, marriage
ageism