Quotes about Connection

Everything I write has to be connected to my life. One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for freedom, especially in women.

A lot of people my age, they grew up with me onscreen. I think that's helped keep a certain amount of longevity. When you grow up with a person, you feel like you know them.

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

Do you think that I would not have let you know that, if you suffered, I was suffering too: that if you wept there were tears in my eyes also: and that if you lay in the house of bondage and were despised of men, I out of my griefs had built a house in which to dwell until your coming, a treasury in which all that man had denied to you would be laid up for your healing, one hundredfold in increase?

Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither

Ah! ah! wherefore didst thou not look at me? If thou hadst looked at me thou hadst loved me. Well I know that thou wouldst have loved me, and the mystery of Love is greater than the mystery of Death.

We all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.

To cure the soul by means of the senses, and the senses by means of the soul.

to marry into a cloakroom, and form an alliance with a parcel

All I want now is to look at life. You may come and look at it with me, if you care to

Sweet, there is nothing left to say But this, that love is never lost

Conversation is one of the loveliest of the arts.