instant intimacy was too often followed by disillusion.
Most people have to talk so they won't hear.
For any writer who wants to keep a journal, be alive to everything, not just to what you're feeling, but also to your pets, to flowers, to what you're reading.
Women's work is always toward wholeness.
Fighting dragons is my holy joy.
The trouble is, old age is not interesting until one gets there. It's a foreign country with an unknown language to the young and even to the middle-aged.