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Nerves and Common Sense

CHAPTER XXVI
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She believes that she has too much work to do.

She wishes that she had more beauty in her life.
Sometimes a woman is entirely conscious of when or why she fails to get her own way; then she knows what she is fretting about, and she may even know that the fretting is a strain that keeps her tired and nervously irritated.

Sometimes a woman is entirely unconscious of what it is that is keeping her in a chronic state of nervous irritability.

I have seen a woman express herself as entirely resigned to the very circumstance or person that she was unconsciously resisting so fiercely that her resistance kept her ill half of the time.

In such cases the strain is double.


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