I should like to be a full-time Mother and a full-time Artist and a full-time Wife-Companion and also a 'Charming Woman' on the side! And to be aware and record it all. I cannot do it all. Something must go - several things probably. The 'charming woman' first!

Why do progress and beauty have to be so opposed?

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

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

Flying was a very tangible freedom. In those days, it was beauty, adventure, discovery - the epitome of breaking into new worlds.

I am beginning to respect the apathetic days. Perhaps they're a necessary pause: better to give in to them than to fight them at your desk hopelessly; then you lose both the day and your self-respect. Treat them as physical phenomena -- casually -- and obey them.

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