It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.

If it is a woman's function to give, she must be replenished, too.

Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.

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

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.

For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.

We tend not to choose the unknown, which might be a shock or a disappointment or simply a little difficult to cope with. An yet it is the unknown with all its disappointments and surprises that is the most enriching.