Zitat des Tages über Teuflisch / Devilish:
Women as mothers grapple with corresponding contradictions. The adoration they feel for their grown daughters, mixed with the sense of responsibility for their well-being, can be overwhelming, matched only by the hurt they feel when their attempts to help or just stay connected are rebuffed or even excoriated as criticism or devilish interference.
It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, three hours in a seasick steamer, and after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak three times, and then I'll be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?
This is the very devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.
But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.
The ugly is very appealing to man. It's instinct. One shrinks from the ugly, yet wants to look at it. There's a devilish fascination in it. We extract pleasure from horror.
This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.
I'm a devilish kind of person, but I embrace it. I don't try to fight it. It's proven very well for me.
