Keeping a Diary all my life helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of writing.
Anais NinIt is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
Anais NinI don't mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated
Anais NinWhen I cannot bear outer pressures anymore, I begin to put order in my belongings...As if unable to organize and control my life, I seek to exert this on the world of objects.
Anais NinWhat you burnt, broke, and tore is still in my hands. I am the keeper of fragile things and I have kept of you what is indissoluble.
Anais NinThe child in me could not die as it should have died, because according too legends it must find its father again. The old legends knew, perhaps, that in absence the father becomes glorified, deified, eroticized, and this outrage against God the Father has to be atoned for. The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.
Anais Nin