Love is a force.... It is not a result; it is a cause. It is not a product; it produces.

Can one make the future a substitute for the present? And what guarantee have we that the future will be any better if we neglect the present?

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

If it is a woman's function to give, she must be replenished, too.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

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

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.