Come on, my girl, get down to work or God help you. And no more excuses either, no little headache here or a bit of nausea there, or I'm not feeling very well. That is absolutely out of the question. You've just got to work, that's that.
Etty Hillesum, from a diary entry featured in An Interrupted Life: the Diaries, 1941-1943 and Letters from Westerbork (translated from the Dutch by Arnold J. Pomerans)












