And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was... - Anaïs Nin

"I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often."

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."

"What I cannot love, I overlook."

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

"There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest."