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The toughness I was learning was not a martyred doggedness, a dumb heroism, but the art of accommodation. I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.

Gretel Ehrlich
Art, Dumb, Heroism
Gretel Ehrlich (1986). “The Solace of Open Spaces”, Penguin Group USA
The toughness I was learning was not a martyred doggedness, a dumb heroism, but the art of accommodation. I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.