Anais Nin

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to read more

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does read more

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 not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new read more

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They read more

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.