Only when one is connected to one's own core is one connected to others, I am beginning to discover. And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be refound through solitude. Anne Morrow Lindbergh More Quotes by Anne Morrow Lindbergh More Quotes From Anne Morrow Lindbergh My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery-just stark me. Anne Morrow Lindbergh women shadow photography If it is a woman's function to give, she must be replenished, too. Anne Morrow Lindbergh function ifs giving When I cannot write a poem, I bake biscuits and feel just as pleased. Anne Morrow Lindbergh biscuits feels-just writing Everything today has been heavy and brown. Bring me a Unicorn to ride about the town. Anne Morrow Lindbergh unicorn towns today the issue of war or peace is an issue that concerns not only experts on Foreign Affairs but every citizen of the United States. Anne Morrow Lindbergh issues united-states war war is a thug's game. The thug strikes first and harder. He doesn't go by rules and he isn't afraid of hurting people. Anne Morrow Lindbergh thug hurt war I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly. Anne Morrow Lindbergh women giving believe What a crippling art writing is, no body to it, no craft, really. It's all in the mind and you never see it or feel it -- only sometimes hear it. It uses only such a small part of man. I wish I were a sculptor. Anne Morrow Lindbergh writing men art Travel Far, Pay No Fare... a book can take you anywhere. Anne Morrow Lindbergh reading education book When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race. Anne Morrow Lindbergh wedding race sound When one is a stranger to oneself, then one is estranged from others, too. Anne Morrow Lindbergh self-respect stranger self-esteem Guys kick friendship all over just like a soccer, nonetheless it does not appear to crack. Girls deal with it like glass and it goes to items. Anne Morrow Lindbergh glasses girl soccer My Life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds. Anne Morrow Lindbergh demand heart people Can you write a book and have children at the same time? Yes, if you're content to do it very very slowly. Anne Morrow Lindbergh writing book children Packing is chiefly planning -- if it is Anne Morrow Lindbergh packing planning ifs These bright roofs, these steep towers, these jewel-lakes, these skeins of railroad line - all spoke to her and she answered. She was glad they were there. She belonged to them and they to her. Anne Morrow Lindbergh railroads jewels lakes Splutter, splutter. Yes - we're off - we're rising. But why start off with an engine like that? But it smooths out now, like a long sigh, like a person breathing easily, freely. Like someone singing ecstatically, climbing, soaring - sustained note of power and joy. We turn from the lights of the city; we pivot on a dark wing; we roar over the earth. The plane seems exultant now, even arrogant. We did it, we did it! Anne Morrow Lindbergh climbing light dark And if flying, like a glass-bottomed bucket, can give you that vision, that seeing eye, which peers down on the still world below the choppy waves - it will always remain magic. Anne Morrow Lindbergh glasses eye giving The fundamental magic of flying, a miracle that has nothing to do with any of its practical purposes - purposes of speed, accessibility, and convenience - and will not change as they change. Anne Morrow Lindbergh magic flying miracle ... the most ordinary everyday living is as delicate, as breath-taking, as difficult, takes as terrific physical and mental control and effort, as walking a tightrope. Anne Morrow Lindbergh effort everyday ordinary