As a parent you have to do some renunciation.

You have an utterly sincere glance when you look around after you are shipwrecked. You weep a long time on an island when you realize what's happened to you.

What does it mean when a man falls in love with a radiant face across the room? It may mean that he has some soul work to do. His soul is the issue. Instead of pursuing the woman and trying to get her alone, away from her husband, he needs to go alone himself, perhaps to a mountain cabin, for three months, write poetry, canoe down a river, and dream. That would save some women a lot of trouble.

In the society that has replaced the paternalistic society, women are able to develop their independent and social energies much more. That is good.

Sociological prose is generally written without images in an exact form for an academic audience.

I am proud only of those days that pass in undivided tenderness.

I knew this friendship with myself couldn’t last forever.