It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.
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Woman does not forget she needs the fecundator, she does not forget that everything that is born of her is planted in her.Anaïs Nin
She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not care to be herself.
Anaïs Nin
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Anais Nin
To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internally, one should not continue to live with the same objects. They reflect one's mind and the psyche of yesterday. I throw away what has no dynamic, living use.
Anaïs Nin
I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic -- in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
Anaïs Nin
The shell is America's most active contribution to the formation of character. A tough hide. Grow it early.
Anaïs Nin
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