It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.

Quote by Anais Nin

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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more...

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more...

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but...

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but...

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous...

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous...

Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become a...

Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become a...

I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are...

I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are...

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more...

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more...

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to...

I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to...

I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I...

I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I...

It is not the experience of today that drives us mad; it is remorse or...

It is not the experience of today that drives us mad; it is remorse or...

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in...

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in...

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we...

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we...

The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a...

The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a...

To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard....

To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard....

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.

He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.

He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than...

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than...