“We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.”
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People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.
Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car.
That image of the countryside being a threatening place still exists. People continue to resist the challenge of learning about aspects of life they don't understand.
Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle.
