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

Cut asparagus at night - in desperation. When one is very tired one always does one more thing.

How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone.

Can one make the future a substitute for the present? And what guarantee have we that the future will be any better if we neglect the present?

The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires.

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

# "I saw the most beautiful cat today. It was sitting by the side of the road, its two front feet neatly and graciously together. Then it gravely swished around its tail to completely encircle itself. It was so fit and beautifully neat, that gesture, and so self-satisfied, so complacent.