You know what my favourite quotation is? [...] It's from Chaucer [...] Criseyde says it, "I am myne owene woman, wel at ese." (Mary McCarthy)

You know what my favourite quotation is? [...] It's from Chaucer [...] Criseyde says it, "I am myne owene woman, wel at ese."

Mary McCarthy

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