“She shuttled between impish girlhood and neurotic womanhood.”

“Do not live someone else's life and someone else's idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.”

“If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.”

“This business of womanhood is a heavy burden.”

“At the beginning of a love affair, not even the neurotic is neurotic.”

“My ideal of womanhood has always been the pioneer woman who fought and worked at her husband's side. She bore the children, kept the home fires burning; she was the hub of the family, the planner and the dreamer.”

“Lin realized that she was living in an unsustainable realm. It combined sanctimony, decadence, insecurity and snobbery in a weird, neurotic brew. It was parasitic.”

“(8 hours after the Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster)”

“A noble type of good.
Heroic womanhood.”

“The idea of perfect womanhood is perfect independence.”