You haven’t told me yet how and what you think about me, and I keep wanting to know.  But I’m glad you will see me as I am. The chief thing I shouldn’t like would be for people to imagine I want to prove anything.  I don’t want to prove anything; I merely want to live, to do no one harm but myself.  I have the right to do that, haven’t I? Anna, Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina