Mrs. Robbins asked: "If I am not for myself, who then is for me?”-and she was for herself so passionately that the other people in the world decided that they were not going to let Pamela Robbins beat them at her own game, and stopped playing. (Randall Jarrell)

Mrs. Robbins asked: "If I am not for myself, who then is for me?”-and she was for herself so passionately that the other people in the world decided that they were not going to let Pamela Robbins beat them at her own game, and stopped playing.

Randall Jarrell

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