Every thought sounds like a footfall, Till a thought like a boot kicks down the wall.

My function as a writer is not story-telling but truth-telling: to make things plain.

we shall know that we have begun to speak true by an increased hunger for true-speaking; we shall have the whole hunger only after we have given ourselves the first taste of it.

Women, ever since there have been women, have had a way of being people.

A child should be allowed to take as long as she needs for knowing everything about herself, which is the same as learning to be herself. Even twenty-five years if necessary, or even forever. And it wouldn't matter if doing things got delayed, because nothing is really important but being oneself.

... whatever is not happening now is unimportant; it is merely curious.

Nature is what you don't have to trouble about. It looks after itself.