IS YOUR LIFE OVER IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A DATE? Are we just useless appendages to nothing at all without the troubling presence of men on our arm? Are we Unitarian sisters?** Perhaps a better question is should we have become nuns?
There is a certain temptation, guided by the zealotry inherent in our genes -- inherited honestly from a line of ancestors who were ministers and saintly mothers. This temptation is to become a nun and work hard enough at it to become a saint, remembered for countless centuries only for our good acts and profound thoughts. This seems a better fate than sitting alone on a Saturday night, without a date, a fate worse than being burned at the stake before you became widely known for your saintly behavior. Everyone remembers Joan of Arc. Are these our two choices? Tied to a man, either a human one or a supernatural one?
**What do your get when you cross a Unitarian and a Jehovah witness? Some one who knocks on your door with nothing particular to say.
There is a certain temptation, guided by the zealotry inherent in our genes -- inherited honestly from a line of ancestors who were ministers and saintly mothers. This temptation is to become a nun and work hard enough at it to become a saint, remembered for countless centuries only for our good acts and profound thoughts. This seems a better fate than sitting alone on a Saturday night, without a date, a fate worse than being burned at the stake before you became widely known for your saintly behavior. Everyone remembers Joan of Arc. Are these our two choices? Tied to a man, either a human one or a supernatural one?
**What do your get when you cross a Unitarian and a Jehovah witness? Some one who knocks on your door with nothing particular to say.
Labels: life beyond the date
posted by Anne Coe | 12:41 PM
3 Comments:
Has anyone else noticed how she spiraled down into a petty mindless idiot. What happened to girl who loved physics and metaphysics and art? This is NOT a good recommendation for dating.
You sound like my mother. A vitriolic, nasty bitter woman. Do you want to go out?
i will go out with you if and only if you are a mean spirited, shallow, petty male, oh, but I repeat myself.
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