Woman's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life.
Anne Morrow LindberghWhy is it that you can sometimes feel the reality of people more keenly through a letter than face to face?
Anne Morrow LindberghFame is a kind of death because it arrests life around the person in the public eye. If one is recognized everywhere, one begins to feel like Medusa. People stop their normal life and actions and freeze into staring manikins. "We can never catch people or life unawares," as I wrote to my mother, in an outburst of frustration. "It is always looking at us."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh