| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 48204 |
| QUOTATION: | A man with a talent does what is expected of him, makes his way, constructs, is an engineer, a composer, a builder of bridges. It’s the natural order of things that he construct objects outside himself and his family. The woman who does so is aberrant.... We have to expiate for this cursed talent someone handed out to us, by mistake, in the black mystery of genetics. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | May Sarton (b. 1912), U.S. poet, novelist. Hilary Stevens, in Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing, pt. 2 (1965). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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