The truth has never been told about women in history: that everywhere man has gone woman has gone too, and what he has done she has done also. Women are ignorant of their own past and ignorant of their own importance in that past.

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

When one commits one's self to an airborne craft and the door is fastened against earth and home, there is no escape even by running away. The result is a strange sense of peace - desperate, perhaps, but peace.

At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.

If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task of writing.

the heart never grows old.

To know what one can have and to do with it, being prepared for no more, is the basis of equilibrium.