Susan Mitchell
Susan Mitchell
Susan Mitchellis an American poet, essayist and translator who wrote the poetry collections Rapture and Erotikon...
sex eye primitive
Ireland regards sex, when she regards it at all, with an entirely primitive and practical eye.
acting culture dublin
We in Ireland are gifted beyond most peoples with a talent for acting, and in Dublin especially, while scorning culture, which indeed we have not got, we are possessed of a most futile and diverting cleverness.
fiction skimming recalls
in my skimmings over fiction I cannot recall any writer so continuously implicated in his own work as George Moore.
dark irritation atmosphere
[On writer George Moore:] ... I grew curious about Moore. Yet when at the rehearsal of 'Countess Cathleen' in some dark by-way of London, I was told he was present, I cannot recall any form, only an irritation in the dusty atmosphere.
motherhood years long
Motherhood: the days are long, the years are short.
children hunting skills
Typing is an essential skill, but it can be painful. Some children just don't know where the letters are. Typing a three-page story, when they have to spend minutes hunting for every letter, can take forever. Yet we tend to assume that children can type, partly because quite a lot of us know where quite a lot of the letters are, so we assume that children do, too.
both case classic difficult family fewer gets greatly home people works younger
This is where moonlighting makes a lot of sense, ... Younger people have fewer family obligations at this point, so moonlighting works greatly to your benefit. It's the classic kind of case where moonlighting makes the most sense. It just gets more difficult the more you're established both professionally and in your home life.
mother
My mother would want to keep someone else from going through what she did.