...whom he had saved from a life of excessive freedom

There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions.

Don't read anything except what destroys the insulation between yourself and your experience.

When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge, no fact can deflect their point of view.

It didn't occur to me that my books would be widely read at all, and that enabled me to write anything I wanted to. And even once I realized that they were being read, I still wrote as if I were writing in secret. That's how one has to write anyway--in secret.

You know, some people fall right through the hole in their lives. Its invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where.

I did not choose solitude. Who would? It came on me like a kind of vocation, demanding an effort that married women can't picture.