I am glad that I do not have any children.

It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.

I am no longer afraid to say anything.

We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.

How can one know anything at all about people?

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours.