“Was it for this I uttered prayers, And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs, That now, domestic as a plate, I should retire at half-past eight?”
— Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Grown-Up", in A Few Figs from Thistles (1920)

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“Was it for this I uttered prayers, And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs, That now, domestic as a plate, I should retire at half-past eight?”
— Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Grown-Up", in A Few Figs from Thistles (1920)

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.