"There ought to be an overriding self, she thinks, who, when she gets out of hand, could slam the door and insist on no more changes until she can consider the

"There ought to be an overriding self, she thinks, who, when she gets out of hand, could slam the door and insist on no more changes until she can consider the matter carefully and discuss it with some of the others. Instead she has only this self, the one she is, and it seems to believe itself to be overriding and final but is merely a memory of someone her future self once knew." - Deb Olin Unferth, "One She Once Was" Full Text: http://professorfloyd.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/onesheoncewasdol.pdf http://professorfloyd.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/onesheonce... One of my favorite short stories.