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

-Anais Nin

“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”

-Anais Nin

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”

-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

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”

-Anais Nin

“Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.”

-Anais Nin