what she needs
But what she needed—vain and imperious as she was—was to speak the truth as she saw it at any given moment. That is what she needed. She needed it more than she needed approval of family or steady comradeship or even political success. The need often made her reckless, hot-tempered, and insensitive.
From The Solitude of Self: Thinking About Elizabeth Cady Stanton by Vivian Gornick
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