“I did not imagine that pregnant women were 'naturally' any more sensitive or exalted than people in any other condition; only it seemed as if - perhaps because we are in such a twilight state, a melting down and reconstituting of the self - there was more opportunity to hear strains from what must be the other side, the moral music of the sphere.”
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“Only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth, and that is not speaking.”
“Truly there is nothing in the world so blessed or so sweet as the heritage of children.”
“The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended.”
“All perfection is melancholy.”
“Imagination is the first faculty wanting in those that do harm to their kind.”
“One only says it is one's duty when one has something disagreeable to do.”