As Dostoevski said: 'Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.

We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

As we come to know the seriousness of the situation, the war, the racism, the poverty in our world, we come to realize that things will not be changed simply by words or demonstrations. Rather, it's a question of living one's life in a drastically different way.

If you feed the poor, you're a saint. If you ask why they're poor, you're a Communist.

You can't write about things without doing them. You just have to live that same way.

Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.

And I was to find out then, as I found out so many times, over and over again, that women especially are social beings, who are not content with just husband and family, but must have a community, a group, an exchange with others. A child is not enough. A husband and children, no matter how busy one may be kept by them, are not enough. Young and old, even in the busiest years of our lives, we women especially are victims of the long loneliness.