If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine - why is there resentment at a female-oriented art? Nobody asks The Tale of Genji to be masculine! Women certainly learn a lot from books oriented toward a masculine world. Why is not the reverse also true? Or are men really so afraid of women's creativity?

Deep down there was understanding, not of the facts of our lives so much as of our essential natures.

Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there.

We only keep what we lose.

No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.

Whatever peace I know rests in the natural world, in feeling myself a part of it, even in a small way.

One does not "find oneself" by pursuing one's self, but on the contrary by pursuing something else and learning through discipline or routine. . . who one is and wants to be.