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.

People talk about love as if it were something you could give, like an armful of flowers.

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

The most exhausting thing you can do is to be inauthentic.

Rivers perhaps are the only physical features of the world that are at their best from the air.

Woman must be the pioneer in this turning inward for strength. In a sense, she has always been the pioneer.

Perhaps both men and women in America may hunger, in our material, outward, active, masculine culture, for the supposedly feminine qualities of heart, mind and spirit — qualities which are actually neither masculine nor feminine, but simply human qualities that have been neglected.