The nature of Charlotte's attachment to Héger and the degree to which she understood herself have been much discussed.
Faced with demands for genealogical proof, the Warren campaign has mainly responded that Warren has long understood herself to be Native American.
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This story seems to me to illustrate a side, at least, of Jane Bown's genius, the source of which she never properly understood herself and about which she remained gracefully modest.
Given her apprehension, silence was a sane response — the only response possible for a girl who understood herself as having been called by the archangel Michael to end human suffering by translating "the voices of angels for the world".
One of the reasons I loved her work when I met it was that she both showed people thinking intensely - as well as feeling - and knew and understood herself what they were thinking about.
