Why do progress and beauty have to be so opposed?

Perhaps this is the most important thing for me to take back from beach-living: simply the memory that each cycle of the tide is valid; each cycle of the wave is valid; each cycle of a relationship is valid.

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

For it is not merely the trivial which clutters our lives but the important as well

Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

It is only framed in space that beauty blooms; only in space are events, and objects and people unique and significant and therefore beautiful.