“The start of work means the end to freedom, but also to doubt, intensity and wayward desires. The accountant’s ten thousand possibilities have been reduced to an agreeable handful. She has a business card which she hands over in meetings and which tells other people—and, more meaningfully perhaps, reminds her—that she is a Business Unit Senior manager, rather than a vaporous transient consciousness in an incidental universe. How satisfying it is to be held in check by the assumptions of colleagues, instead of being forced to contemplate, in the loneliness of the early hours, all that one might have been and now never will be. … Life is no longer mysterious, sad, haunting, touching, confusing or melancholy; it is a practical stage for clear-eyed action.”

Written in 1857, as quoted in ch. 87.
The Female Experience (1977)

Source: Living In The Number One Country (2000), Chapter Five, Corporatizing Communication And Culture, p. 138

Superman Comes to the Supermarket (1960)

Cassandra (1860)

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: The First Men in the Moon (1901), Ch. 18: In the Sunlight

The Awakening (1899)

Purdah and the status of Women in Islam, 1991, p. 140, Taj Company Ltd, Lahore, Pakistan.
After 1970s

Source: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 1, Chapter 2, “Chains of Many Kinds” (p. 71).