Praxis

Authors: Fay Weldon

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“I AM NOT anxious. I am angry, resentful, spiteful, plagued with self-pity, frightened by death, but I am not anxious; not plagued by the worm Anxiety, which gnaws away at the foundations of female experience, so that the patterns of magnificence fail, time and time again, to emerge.
Don’t pity me, down here in my basement. Don’t blame yourselves for your neglect of me. Old woman and a nuisance. I am all right, I tell you. The worm is gone. I am everything disagreeable, but I am not anxious.
I f...eel no anxiety because I have no one to love. Parents, spouse, or children; above all, I have no children any more. They have grown up now. I have disowned them and they have disowned me. We are free of each other: I should be, and am, proud of that. We do not need each other any more.
There comes a time, when the Alaskan brown bear gets fed up with her young. She leads her brood to the top of a tall pine tree and leaves them there. She knows how to get down, but they don’t. By the time they’ve found out, she’s off and away, the other side of the mountain; and they do without her, well enough.MoreLess Read More Read Less