Woman's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life.

How one hates to think of oneself as alone. How one avoids it. It seems to imply rejection or unpopularity.

Failures aren't failures if you learn something from them.

I should like to be a full-time Mother and a full-time Artist and a full-time Wife-Companion and also a 'Charming Woman' on the side! And to be aware and record it all. I cannot do it all. Something must go - several things probably. The 'charming woman' first!

The nice thing about really intelligent people is that when you talk with them they make you feel intelligent too.

If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.

When one is a stranger to oneself, then one is estranged from others, too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others. Only when one is connected to one's own core, is one connected to others. And for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be re-found through silence.