Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother.
A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.
The reason why I love people, and writing about them, is because they don't always respond with hate and anger. If they did I wouldn't have a story to tell. Who wants to know about someone who was brutalised and became brutal? I'm interested in the exceptions.
I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.
At this point in time the war [ WWII] is close enough to still feel hotly personal to a writer, yet far enough away so that jingoism and heroics are no longer required.
This is the forked tongue of grief again. It whispers in one ear: return to what you once loved best, and in the other ear it whispers, move on.
The external is in no way the essence of religion, but the external often proclaims the internal.
Throughout my career, I had the great fortune to experience firsthand as well as to witness what it means to be a CIA officer.
My standpoint is armed neutrality.
You can drive at 16, go to war at 18, drink at 21, and retire at 65. So who can say what age you have to be to find your true love?