FIRST LOVE..

i found god in myself
& i loved her
i loved her fiercely

-Ntozake Shange

Be not ashamed, woman...
You are the gates of the body,
and you are the gates of the soul.

-Walt Whitman

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman

-Simone de Beavoir

I will not compromise myself to keep the peace any longer. It would be wise to avoid attacking and laying traps for me at this point in my life. -Nicole

It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before...to test your limits...to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain in a tight rosebud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. -Anais Nin

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage - Anais Nin

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by giving, by risking, by losing.
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend realty by imagination, as I try to do.
What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that true friendship?

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new love, a new friend, a new country.

The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adveristy, stumble from defeat to defeat.

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

It's alright for a woman to be above all, human. I am a woman first of all.

- all Anais Nin