the issue of war or peace is an issue that concerns not only experts on Foreign Affairs but every citizen of the United States.

I must try to be alone for part of each year...and part of each day...in order to keep my core, my center...Women must be still as the axis of a wheel in the midst of her activities. She must be the pioneer of achieving this stillness, not only for her own salvation, but for the salvation of family life, of society, perhaps even of our civilization.

Flowers always have it - poise, completion, fulfillment, perfection . . .

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.

Frenchwomen just never look ungroomed, do they?

... not only is life put in new patterns from the air, but it is somehow arrested, frozen into form. (The leaping hare is caught in a marble panel.) A glaze is put over life. There is no flaw, no crack in the surface; a still reservoir, no ripple on its face. Looking down from the air that morning, I felt that stillness rested like a light over the earth. The waterfalls seemed frozen solid; the tops of the trees were still; the river hardly stirred, a serpent gently moving under its shimmering skin.