it takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeded. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

You can’t just write and write and put things in a drawer. They wither without the warm sun of someone else’s appreciation.

When you love someone you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible, in life as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom

Woman must come of age by herself...
She must find her true center alone.