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.

I should like to be a full-time Mother and a full-time Artist and a full-time Wife-Companion and also a 'Charming Woman' on the side! And to be aware and record it all. I cannot do it all. Something must go - several things probably. The 'charming woman' first!

I find there is a quality to being alone that is incredibly precious. Life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid, fuller than before.

I would like to achieve a state of inner spiritual grace from which I could function and give as I was meant to in the eye of God.

Yesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience.

One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life.

there is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.