One learns to accept the fact that no permanent return is possible to an old form of relationship; and, more deeply still, that there is no holding of a relationship to a single form. This is not tragedy but part of the ever-recurrent miracle of life and growth.

Who is not afraid of pure space - that breathtaking empty space of an open door?

Woman must be the pioneer in this turning inward for strength. In a sense, she has always been the pioneer.

Certain environments, certain modes of life, and certain rules of conduct are more conducive to inner and outer harmony than others. There are, in fact, certain roads that one may follow. Simplification is one of them.

I had the feeling . . . that my experience was very different from other people’s. (Are we all under this illusion?)

One can get just as much exultation in losing oneself in a little thing as in a big thing. It is nice to think how one can be recklessly lost in a daisy.

Woman must come of age by herself... She must find her true center alone.