Woman must come of age by herself... She must find her true center alone.

Failures aren't failures if you learn something from them.

Woman can best refind herself by losing herself in some kind of creative activity of her own.

# "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.

Fame is a kind of death because it arrests life around the person in the public eye.

Splutter, splutter. Yes - we're off - we're rising. But why start off with an engine like that? But it smooths out now, like a long sigh, like a person breathing easily, freely. Like someone singing ecstatically, climbing, soaring - sustained note of power and joy. We turn from the lights of the city; we pivot on a dark wing; we roar over the earth. The plane seems exultant now, even arrogant. We did it, we did it!

It is only framed in space that beauty blooms; only in space are events, and objects and people unique and significant and therefore beautiful.