"and the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does bot believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman."
"Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death."
