One must lose one's life to find it. Woman can best refind herself by losing herself in some kind of creative activity of her own. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I shall ask into my shell only those friends with whom I can be completely honest. I find I am shedding hypocrisy in human relationships. What a rest that will be! The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask. I have shed my mask.

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

The American woman is still relatively free to choose the wider life. How long she will hold this enviable and precarious position no one knows. But her particular situation has a significance far above its apparent economic, national or even sex limitations.