The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
Anais Nin

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
Anais Nin

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Anais Nin

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.
Anais Nin