I had the feeling . . . that my experience was very different from other people’s. (Are we all under this illusion?)

God may want you to be the answer to your own prayer.

Great problems that face the world today in both the private and the public sphere cannot be solved by women – or by men – alone. They can only be surmounted by men and women side by side.

The web of marriage is made by propinquity, in the day to day living side by side, looking outward in the same direction. It is woven in space and in time of the substance of life itself.

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

Marriage should, I think, always be a little bit hard and new and strange. It should be breaking your shell and going into another world, and a bigger one.

Geniuses were like storms or cyclones, pulling everything into their path, sticks and stones and dust.