379I believe that what a woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly. What we fear is not so much that our … - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.

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

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

For to be a woman is to have interests and duties, raying out in all directions from the central mother-core, like spokes from the hub of a wheel. The pattern of our lives is essentially circular. We must be open to all points of the compass; husband, children, friends, home, community; stretched out, exposed, sensitive like a spider’s web to each breeze that blows, to each call that comes. How difficult for us, then, to achieve a balance in the midst of these contradictory tensions, and yet how necessary for the proper functioning of our lives.

I feel a hunger now- a real hunger-for letting the pool still itself & seeing the reflections.