ha! i was looking on yen's blog for her entries about her recent visit to melaka but found this entry instead, which somehow i must have missed the first time, because i have no memory of it, and i wouldn't have forgot a thing like that!

Sayers in a letter to her parents in 1921:

"I can't get the work I want, nor the money I want, nor consequently, the clothes I want, nor the holiday I want, nor the man I want!! And then people tell me of girls who are oppressed and embarrassed by the possession of an income of 300 pounds a year, and feel that they ought not to have it and ought to be doing slum work and being useful to society. I call that pure egotism and spiritual pride. How thankfully would you or I support life under a load of similar embarrassments."

me too! me too!