what I must learn is to love with all of me, giving all of me, and yet remain whole in myself. Any other kind of love is too demanding of the other; it takes, rather than gives. To love so completely that you lose yourself in another person is not good. You are giving a weight, not the sense of lightness and light that loving someone should give.

Friends do everything they can to protect each other." --Polly

Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not affect other people, no matter how loudly we say, "It's my own business.

Women must be very gentle with men as they, as well as women, seek to regain the lost wholeness for which they were destined.

I wish that we worried more about asking the right questions instead of being so hung up on finding answers.

... nothing loved is ever lost or perished.

Give the public the 'image' of what it thinks it ought to be, or what television commercials or glossy magazine ads have convinced us we ought to be, and we will buy more of the product, become closer to the image, and further from reality.