Reader Response: Cry, Baby

"You go to bed now. What you want is a good cry."

This opinion had nothing to recommend it but the general consent of mankind. It is universally understood that, as if it were nothing more substantial than a vapour floating in the sky, every emotion of a woman is bound to end in a shower.

Joseph Conrad in The Secret Agent

Few people have actually seen me shed tears before. General consent of mankind, perhaps. I wonder what Conrad thought of Woolf.

And, sometimes I really wonder what it'd be like if Mum had a daughter.