Communication with another person -- wasn't it the realest thing in life?

Woman's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life.

Can you write a book and have children at the same time? Yes, if you're content to do it very very slowly.

For is it not possible that middle age can be looked upon as a period of second flowering, second growth, even a kind of second adolescence? It is true that society in general does not help one accept this interpretation of the second half of life.

... writing letters is thinking, just as talking to you is thinking.

Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies and earths beneath us - many days, many nights of stars.

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.