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I am most anxious to give my own children enough love and understanding so that they won't grow up with an aching void in them--like you and I and Harold and Martha. That can never be filled, and one goes around all

I am most anxious to give my own children enough love and understanding so that they won't grow up with an aching void in them--like you and I and Harold and Martha. That can never be filled, and one goes around all one's life trying, trying to make up for what one didn't get that was one's birthright, asking the wrong people for it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Children, Growing Up, People
Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2012). “Against Wind and Tide: Letters and Journals, 1947-1986”, p.122, Pantheon

Can you write a book and have children at the same time? Yes, if you're content to do it very very slowly.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Children, Book, Writing
Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1981). “War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944”, Berkley

Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Life, Trust, Children

The bearing, rearing, feeding and educating of children; the running of a house with its thousand details; human relationships with their myriad pulls - women's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Running, Children, Contemplative Life
Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2010). “Gift from the Sea”, p.21, Random House

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