She is a servant and she acknowledges herself as a servant.
It shows her in the face of tragedy behaving like the data-driven A-student type she acknowledges herself to be: seeking out the supporting studies and statistics that show how best she might serve her kids in order for them survive, and even thrive, in the context of their mutilated family unit.
Written before the swinging 60s had taken hold, Gerry Goffin and Carole King's song managed to be both taboo and prescient (as the decade progressed, the lyrics seemed increasingly to question its liberal mores, something King acknowledged herself when she recorded it for Tapestry as a wiser woman).
"It's something that she didn't even want to acknowledge herself.
Upon realizing that Homer has come into some money by betting against her in the tournament, Lisa gets angry at him and refuses to acknowledge herself as Homer's daughter, even going so far as to take Marge's maiden name and start calling herself "Lisa Bouvier".
When my sister got on the phone, I told her how incredible it was that my niece could really celebrate and acknowledge herself, at an age when young girls often begin to dim their light to be accepted and not perceived as "conceited".
Finally, she mustered the wherewithal to acknowledge to herself that she was trans.
Once back in her office, Karen acknowledged to herself that she'd been getting little pleasure from her work in the past several months.
A woman who is "never angry" might regard all the anger in her marriage as coming from her husband; indeed, she might provoke him to express a rage she cannot acknowledge in herself.
At the end of Act 1, Arbace — falsely accused of murdering the Persian king Serse but widely believed guilty — is condemned in three successive exit arias by his father Artabano (who is the real culprit attempting a coup d'état), his sister Semira, and even his lover, Serse's daughter Mandane, who feels compelled to hate Arbace but acknowledges to herself she cannot do so.
Ms. Warren has acknowledged listing herself as a minority in a national directory of law professors in the 1980s and '90s, citing family stories about American Indian ancestors and saying she had done it to "meet more people who had grown up like I had grown up".
