There is a proper balance between not asking enough of oneself and asking or expecting too much.
May SartonAt some point I believe one has to stop holding back for fear of alienating some imaginary reader or real relative or friend, and come out with personal truth.
May SartonNo partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.
May SartonLife comes in clusters, clusters of solitude, then a cluster when there is hardly time to breathe.
May SartonIt is harder for women, perhaps to be 'one-pointed,' much harder for them to clear space around whatever it is they want to do beyond household chores and family life. Their lives are fragmented... the cry not so much for a 'a room of one's own' as time of one's own. Conflict become acute, whatever it may be about, when there is no margin left on any day in which to try at least to resolve it.
May Sarton