"There is an evil moment upon awakening when all things seem to pause. But for women, they only falter and may be set in action by a single move; a lifted hand and the pendulum will swing, or the voice raised and through every room the pulse takes up its beating. The astronomer's wife felt the interval gaping and at once filled it to the brim. She fetched up her gentle voice and sent it warily down the stairs for coffee, swung her feet out upon the oval mat, and hailed the morning with her bare arms' quivering flesh drawn taut in rhythmic exercise; left, left, left my wife and fourteen children, right, right, right, right in the middle of the dusty road."- Kay Boyle in Astronomer's Wife
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