"She always wanted to improve her mind.
Like many revolutionaries in history, she used it to improve her mind.
In a year, he dumped her for the author of "Forever Amber," which she had been reading to improve her mind.
Surrounded by books and Crow's towering stack of Criterion Collection DVDs, she could improve her mind while her body held her here.
Her play, written on a borrowed typewriter the day after her very first trip to the theatre – a young man, "anxious to improve" her mind, had taken her to the Manchester Opera House, whereupon she had finally "discovered something that meant more to me than myself" – is muscular, plain- speaking, funny and furious.
The audience of "West Bletchley revolutionaries" includes Miss Minns, anxious to improve her mind, a woman knitting a jumper, two others, sitting "like lumps of pudding", and a younger woman, "one of the teachers at the Council School", who is "drinking it all in".
Lucille will use the money she earns as a lightning rod to enroll in law school and become a million-dollar-a-year litigation lawyer; Renée, who makes the most of her active time on the job by reading Proust in the original French ("Instead of cluttering up her mind with bad feelings, she had actually improved her mind"), will also enroll in law school and become a Supreme Court justice.
Gripped with this skeptical predicament, she has no desire to improve her mind, and she lacks an ability to understand her perfections, which would otherwise guide her in living a virtuous life (Astell 2002, 80 1, 200, 202, 228).
This post is partially adapted from My Plastic Brain: One woman's yearlong journey to discover if science can improve her mind (Prometheus Books, 2018).
During that time Helen secretly read romance novels, but if Anne caught her she'd tell Helen to put the novel away and read something to improve her mind.
