Then, using a Rolleiflex bought for £50 with borrowed money, she took her photograph of a cow's eye and in that eye she discovered herself.
She also used her feed, @valtrier, to rail at her employers for sexism when she discovered herself on the cover of Paris Match, described as Hollande's "charming asset".
(A repressed Englishwoman falls in love with a rambunctious American, their parents are against it, she discovers herself).
It invites us to consider the pain she has discovered herself, and to look inside our own selves and our communities to see what pain may be awaiting us.
"Again, it's weird that she's going through this now at 32, but it's like she's kind of discovered herself in this last year in that she's really improved her game, improved that median game," Navratilova said.
She must deny her feelings, and shut herself down just as she is discovering herself.
In the seventies and eighties, Sontag says, she discovered in herself a need for intensity, as opposed to the deep cool, the control, of formalism.
She is trying to find out who she is, and discover herself.
She is a transaction, her feelings do not come into it, and at a time when she is just discovering herself and her emotions towards love and desire, she has to quash them because as a woman at the time in her position, these are not feelings she is permitted to have.
As someone who has reinvented herself by degrees, she is now discovering herself by the mile along two-lane roads.
Shelby Van Voris was pregnant with triplets when she discovered this for herself.
