408 Quotes by May Sarton

One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.

We have to make myths of our lives, the point being that if we do, then every grief or inexplicable seizure by weather, woe, or work can-if we discipline ourselves and think hard enough-be turned to account, be made to yield further insight into what it is to be alive, to be a human being.

Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.

We cannot afford not to fight for growth and understanding, even when it is painful, as it is bound to be.

You will always be here with me; As long as I live, A towering figure of love.

Gardening is an instrument of grace.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

A man with a talent does what is expected of him, makes his way, constructs, is an engineer, a composer, a builder of bridges. It's the natural order of things that he construct objects outside himself and his family. The woman who does so is aberrant. We have to expiate for this cursed talent someone handed out to us, by mistake, in the black mystery of genetics.

Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there.