BURDENS OF YOUTH
WOMAN NOVELIST’S VIEWS. “It is a matter of great satisfaction to me that I am no longer very young,” asserted Miss Pamela Frankau, the novelist, in a broadcast- talk. “Do I scorn youth? Not exactly. Youth is charming; youth is happy; youth is vital and romantic—but only if you look at it from outside. When you yourself are living in it, it is in fact a very uncomfortable business. To be ‘sweet seventeen’ is probably the least sweet of all life’s experiences, Awkwardness, doubts, self-absorption, these are the burdens of the young woman. They must continue until she has found herself, which she usually does round about the age of thirty-five. Found herself? Perhaps I ought to have said lost herself. Consider the intense egoism of youth. The slogan of youth can be summed up in six Words, ‘I wish. 1 hope. I fear.’ The woman of thirty-five is done with all that. She has begun to look outward and hot inward.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 May 1939, Page 8
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