She seems to have let her personal life affect the characters and events in her stories quite often, actually.
Better that she play immaturely now and let life and the years teach her the rest in due course.
"Myself, I have always chosen to let life come to me."
Celia, who has always let life simply happen to her, is ill equipped to help the police find her daughter.
Hey, Jack, let me tell you something that I learned from my father - life isn't fair.
"It's like opening a door and letting life play a role."
Let life be short, else shame will be too long.
Let life be as it is, unchanged and stable, to be relied upon.
Yet even the women who call the shots let life lead them by the hand.
After a while, most guild rats withered and let life beat them.