The problem is not entirely in finding a room of one's own, the time alone, difficult and necessary as that is. The problem is more how to still the … - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.

We were high above fields, and there far, far below, was a small shadow as of a great bird tearing along the neatly marked off fields. It gave me the most tremendous shock to realize for the first time the terrific speed we were going at and that that shadow meant us — us, like a mirror! That "bird" — it was us.

He could leap the corral,
If he rose
To his full height;
He could splinter the fencing light,
With three blows
Of his porcelain hoofs in flight — If he chose.
He could shatter his prison wall,
Could escape them all — If he rose,
If he chose.