They discover that the verge was not an ending. It was a doorway.
In pop culture, the phrase is inseparable from Pedro Almodóvar’s 1988 masterpiece, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown . In that film, a group of women—abandoned, betrayed, and accidentally drugged—spiral through Madrid in a frenzy of chaos. It is hilarious and heartbreaking. But it captures a universal truth: sometimes, the only sane response to an insane situation is to come completely undone. women on the verge
Rosa Parks was on the verge of tired feet and a fed-up soul. Gloria Steinem was on the verge of a revolution that had no blueprint. Malala Yousafzai was on the verge of death, and she chose a school instead of silence. They discover that the verge was not an ending