When I cannot write a poem, I bake biscuits and feel just as pleased. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"Woman must come of age by herself. This is the essence of "coming of age" -to learn how to stand alone."

Here sits the Unicorn
In captivity,
Yet free.

With a new awareness, both painful and humorous, I begin to understand why the saints were rarely married women. I am convinced it has nothing inherently to do, as I once supposed, with chastity or children. It has to do primarily with distractions. The bearing, rearing, feeding and educating of children; the running of a house with its thousand details; human relationships with their myriad pulls — woman's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life.