She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
Only a woman can write what it is to feel as a woman, to be a woman.
The arrogance of some Christians would close heaven to them if, to their misfortune, it existed.
To be a woman, if not a defect, is at least a peculiarity.
... to adapt one's outlook to another person's salvation is the surest and quickest way of losing him.
--There you are. The sight of the changing world is miraculous and heartbreaking, both at the same time. --But so it is for me too. The heartbreaking side of growing old is not in the things around one but in oneself.