May Sarton quotes

" We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be. " # Risk # Fear # Courage

" In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place. " # Failure # Humankind # Work

" The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind. " # Certainty # Time and Time Management # Mind

" Though friendship is not quick to burn, It is explosive stuff. " # Friends and Friendship # Books - Reading # Writers and Writing

" Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self. " # Solitude # Poverty and The Poor # Wealth

" We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment. " # Laughter # Love # Achievement

" Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there. " # Self-respect # Love # Respectability

" Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be. " # Wives # Men and Women # Marriage

" There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most. " # Giving # Freedom # Power

" One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being. " # Heroes and Heroism # Freedom # Power