The Tanners (2012)
“I can’t even manage to feel sad about it, just pensive. Perhaps other girls feel something similar, I don’t know. Perhaps I missed out on my life’s true profession when I set out to find a career for life. Studying to learn a profession is something we girls do halfheartedly anyhow, for us it isn’t the main thing. How strange it now seems to me that I became a teacher. Why not a dressmaker, or something completely different? I can no longer even imagine the feelings that drove me to take up suc...h a profession. What sense of wonder and promise held me in its thrall? Did I think I would become a benefactress, did I feel I had no choice but to see this as my duty, my calling? You believe all kinds of things when you lack experience, and later you experience things that make you see the world quite differently. How very strange. Taking life as seriously as I did involves a certain severity in the way one treats oneself. I must tell you, Simon: I took life too seriously, too sacredly; I didn’t stop to consider that I was a girl when I undertook a task fit only for men.MoreLess
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