I'm getting stale. I always do this time of year. I keep my nose to the grindestone and put in long hours and rustle up good meals and do all the chores and run errands and get along with people -- and have a fine time doing it and enjoy life. Then I realize, bang, that I'm tired and I don't want to wait on my family for a while and I wish I could go away somewhere and have people wait on me hand and foot, and dress up and go to restaurants and the theater and act like a woman of the world. I feel as if I'd been swallowed up whole by all these powerful DeVotos and I'd like to be me for a while with somebody who never heard the name. Joan Reardon
About This Quote

This quote is very gender specific. The author was writing about how it is okay to be who you are and to enjoy being different. The author is clearly saying that she got tired of waiting on everyone else for a while and she wanted to be the one who could make her own choices. She felt like she had been swallowed up whole by the DeVotos that she was married to.

It sounds like she did not want to wait on anyone else, but instead wanted to be able to go out and live life on her own. She did not want to be swallowed up by this family anymore and wanted some time away from them.

Source: As Always, Julia: The Letters Of Julia Child And Avis Devoto: Food, Friendship, And The Making Of A Masterpiece

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