Needed to save this somewhere:
Growing up is difficult. Strangely, even when we have stopped growing physically, we seem to have to keep on growing emotionally, which involves both expansion and shrinkage, as some parts of us develop and others must be allowed to disappear … Rigidity never works; we end up being the wrong size for our world.
Jeanette Winterson, All about my mother. From the Guardian.
(Hooray for Twitter: the tweet that alerted me to the article.)