Woman can best refind herself by losing herself in some kind of creative activity of her own.

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery-just stark me.

When I cannot write a poem, I bake biscuits and feel just as pleased.

Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.

Action achieves ambition.

Rules cannot take the place of character.

I'm in the kitchen and I'm not walking out.

Goodness will find the little boy. It always has. It will again.

There's always an adjective before my name, and it's never a nice one.

There's no such thing as the United Nations. If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference.

I really, really want to produce. That's the top of my to-do list.

Without water drops, there can be no oceans; without steps, there can be no stairs; without little things, there can be no big things!

I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college.

Mnemosyne, one must admit, has shown herself to be a very careless girl.