Karen Armstrong quote: I did not want to appear before the world as pathetic, deprssed, and psychologically ill. So I erected a barrier ...

I did not want to appear before the world as pathetic, deprssed, and psychologically ill. So I erected a barrier of words and wit around myself, so that nobody could see how needy I really was.

~ Karen Armstrong ~

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