The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price that of feeling nothing at all.
There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat...
But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave...
No matter what a woman's appearance may be it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.
