Quote by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The Feminists did not look. . . far [enough] ahead; they laid down no rules of conduct. For them it was enough to demand the privileges. . . . And [so] woman today is still searching. We are aware of our hunger and needs, but still ignorant of what will satisfy them. With our garnered free time, we are more apt to drain our creative springs than to refill them. With our pitchers [in hand], we attempt. . . to water a field, [instead of] a garden. We throw ourselves indiscriminately into committees and causes. Not knowing how to feed the spirit, we try to muffle its demands in distractions. Instead of stilling the center, the axis of the wheel, we add more centrifugal activities to our lives--which tend to throw us [yet more] off balance.

Mechanically we have gained, in the last generation, but spiritually we have. . . lost.
Author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Source: Gift from the Sea [New York: Pantheon, 1955], pp. 50 51Saved by mlsscaress in peace soul creativity time balance needs center distraction 2 years ago[save this] [permalink]

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