A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Woman must come of age by herself. This is the essence of 'coming of age'-to learn how to stand alone. She must learn not to depend on another, nor to feel she must prove her strength by competing with another. In the past, she has swung between these two opposite poles of dependence and competition, of Victorianism and Feminism. Both extremes throw her off balance; neither is the center, the true center of being a whole woman. She must find her true center alone. She must become whole.

people talk about 'sex' as though it hopped about by itself, like a frog!

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

No American can understand the need for time -- that is, simply space to breathe. If you have ten minutes to spare you should jam that full instead of leaving it -- as space around your next ten minutes. How can anything ripen without those 'empty' ten minutes?

I would like to achieve a state of inner spiritual grace from which I could function and give as I was meant to in the eye of God.

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.