Autobiography of Blue

“It grew to be a big question in her own mind, just what her emancipation ought to consist of: whether it meant having lemon skins and gin stoppers in the wash-basin and talking freely of exhibitionism and voyeurism, or whether it meant being the recipient of some overwhelmingly beautiful passion which her poetical soul still prescribed but which she knew couldn’t exist because she was so widely read. To stall for time she would make another lamp shade.”

- Is Sex Necessary? by E.B. White & James Thurber, 1929