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

After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood.

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

The bearing, rearing, feeding and educating of children; the running of a house with its thousand details; human relationships with their myriad pulls - women's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life.

When one is a stranger to oneself, then one is estranged from others, too.

Beauty cannot disguise nor music melt A pain undiagnosable but felt.

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