Anne Spencer Lindbergh (née Morrow; June 22, 1906 – February 7, 2001) was an American author, aviator, and the wife of aviator Charles Lindbergh.
the issue of war or peace is an issue that concerns not only experts on Foreign Affairs but every citizen of the United States.
there is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.
If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.
When one is out of touch with oneself, one cannot touch others.
The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
The nicest gifts are those left, nameless and quiet, unburdened with love, or vanity, or the desire for attention.
The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.
It is not restful, it is not possible to talk wholeheartedly to more than one person at a time. You can't really talk with a person unless you surrender to them, for the moment (all other talk is futile). You can't surrender to more than one person a moment.
I think best with a pencil in my hand.
For it is only framed in space that beauty blooms.
Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
Forsythia is pure joy. There is not an ounce, not a glimmer of sadness or even knowledge in forsythia. Pure, undiluted, untouched joy.
Frenchwomen just never look ungroomed, do they?
Fame separates you from life.
Cut asparagus at night - in desperation. When one is very tired one always does one more thing.
I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light.
To mention a loved object, a person, or a place to someone else is to invest that object with reality.
Great problems that face the world today in both the private and the public sphere cannot be solved by women – or by men – alone. They can only be surmounted by men and women side by side.
I must try to be alone for part of each year. . . and part of each day. . . in order to keep my core, my center. . . Women must be still as the axis of a wheel in the midst of her activities. She must be the pioneer of achieving this stillness, not only for her own salvation, but for the salvation of family life, of society, perhaps even of our civilization.
The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.