If one is the kind of creature I am and wants to do the kind of writing I want to do, an undisturbed bourgeois existence with no distractions seems in order. A single meeting outside the family upsets one's whole inner web, makes one start off on two-days' thinking and weighing, destroys a delicate balance etc. etc. ... I now have enough friends to last me a lifetime and that is enough. I am going to close the doors and hibernate at least for a couple of years. I am frightfully depressed about my work. It seems to me perfectly mediocre.

Family life! The United Nations is child's play compared to the tugs and splits and need to understand and forgive in any family.

Women's work is always toward wholeness.

The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.

in the very long run any success devours - and perhaps also corrupts.

What we have not has made us what we are. / ... / What we are not drives us to consummation.

Being very rich as far as I am concerned is having a margin. The margin is being able to give.