“She wanted to be herself again, to recover all that she had been obliged to give up in half a century of servitude that had doubtless made her happy but which, once her husband was dead, did not leave her even the vestiges of her identity.”
Source: Love in the Time of Cholera
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“She herself had never been able to be altogether herself: it had been denied her.”
Source: Lady Chatterley's Lover
By Khushwant Mubarak Singh quoted in "She had a lust for life"
Source: Lady of Mazes (2005), Chapter 7 (p. 66).
Source: The poem was originally titled "Habe Geduld". It was first published in Blüthen des Herzens around 1906. https://www.bartfmdroog.com/droog/dd/bluthen_des_herzens_scans.html#front
Adolf Hitler used this poem with the title "Deine Mutter" in the handwritten manuscript he signed and dated in 1923. For this reason, this poem is sometimes misattributed to him. Adolf Hitler, "Denk' es!" (Be Reminded!) 1923, first published in Sonntag-Morgenpost (14 May 1933).