“I … understand why the saints were rarely married women. I am convinced it has nothing inherently to do, as I once supposed, with chastity or children. It has primarily to do with distractions … Women's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life or saintly life.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh, book Gift from the Sea

Source: Gift from the Sea (1955), Ch. 2

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