The Women's Room
“Mira and Val and I were part of what one eminent professor of English in this exalted institution had referred to sneeringly as the ‘Geritol crowd.’ There were a few older men, too, mostly Jesuit priests. I don’t know why Harvard accepted us at all; it was not its usual practice. Perhaps because of the war – we were eminently undraftable. But we were few enough in number to feel terribly alone in that mass of undirected faces, all of which looked under twenty. They weren’t of course: Kyla was t...wenty-four, Isolde, twenty-six, Clarissa, twenty-three. But Mira and I were thirty-eight and Val was thirty-nine. That was quite a difference. Many of our professors were younger than we were; the chairman of graduate studies was thirty-five. It is strange. All of us had lived much alone and had great confidence in our own perceptions, and were not used to being treated like fools, or patronized. When the graduate chairman treated us like recalcitrant children, it made us very uncomfortable.MoreLess
Read book The Women's Room for free
You can download books for free in various formats, such as epub, pdf, azw, mobi, txt and others on book networks site. Additionally, the entire text is available for online reading through our e-reader. Our site is not responsible for the performance of third-party products (sites).
Write Review:
Guest
Read Also
10 / 10
8 / 10
User Reviews: