All she wanted was to be a little girl, to be efficiently taken care of by some yielding yet superior power, stupider and steadier than herself. It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream

F. Scott Fitzgerald
About This Quote

A book was written by Christina Stead, called "Journey to the End of the Night". The story is about a woman who has an affair with her husband's best friend. She does not realize what this man is doing until it is too late. He breaks up their marriage and takes her children away.

She tries to escape him but he eventually kills her. She stands on the balcony of her own home and looks at the stars saying she wants to be like them, to go where no one can hurt her. She wants to be like them, but she actually wants to be like him.

Her dream of being like him will never come true because she never wanted him in the first place. This quote shows that though women want to be taken care of by their lovers, they want them to always leave them alone when they've had their fill of them. They don't want them taking care of them or pushing them into a corner where they will have do nothing but cry and cry and cry.

Source: The Beautiful And Damned

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