The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.
Freya StarkIn one form or another, conscious or unconscious, we have all become propagandists; integrity alone can keep us truthful.
Freya StarkOn the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.
Freya Stark