"“Frequently in her writings a misshapen body was but a sign of man’s incapacity to expand, to give of himself completely or to receive love — an impasse fraught with deep anguish. Countless misguided and fragmented people from her imagined world attempted to find meaning and purpose through personal attachments that ran a broad psychological gamut, but the author never thought such behavior abnormal. She saw their world as an inverted one, in which the norms were normlessness, meaninglessness, purposelesness, powerlessness and alienation.”