I don’t blame the ladies in the locker room for how I feel. I don’t blame any of us. We’re all concerned, intelligent, good women…It’s just that I feel stranded. And I thought the whole point was that we wouldn’t feel stranded. I thought the point was that we were all in this together.
Heidi, The Heidi Chronicles, Wendy Wasserstein
(I’ve been ruminating over this passage since I was 23. I think it’s only getting more meaningful with time.)