Janette Turner Hospital Collected Stories (2015)
“Yet there it was. The world was riddled with a lack of probity, double standards thick as dandelions in even the best-weeded lives.
But Mother, her daughters said, you know nothing about the predatory habits of men. And travelling alone, well, it’s like an advertisement. You’ll be fair game.
Doris knew that they meant: You need a man to go with you, to protect you from other men; you can’t manage alone. But of course they couldn’t come right out and say this, since it flew in the face o...f all their principles. She had to smile at their malaise.
You’ve led such a sheltered life, they said. You’re so innocent and trusting.
Which is why you should stand up and cheer, Doris countered. Better, surely, to bloom so unseasonably late than never at all.
But both of her daughters were against the scheme from the start. They thought of it as a sudden madness brought on by the recent death of their father.MoreLess
But Mother, her daughters said, you know nothing about the predatory habits of men. And travelling alone, well, it’s like an advertisement. You’ll be fair game.
Doris knew that they meant: You need a man to go with you, to protect you from other men; you can’t manage alone. But of course they couldn’t come right out and say this, since it flew in the face o...f all their principles. She had to smile at their malaise.
You’ve led such a sheltered life, they said. You’re so innocent and trusting.
Which is why you should stand up and cheer, Doris countered. Better, surely, to bloom so unseasonably late than never at all.
But both of her daughters were against the scheme from the start. They thought of it as a sudden madness brought on by the recent death of their father.MoreLess
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