Anais Nin

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

Anais Nin

If a person continues to see giants, it means he is still looking at the world through the eyes of a child.

Anais Nin

If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.

Anais Nin

If you can’t create, you destroy.

Anais Nin

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.

Anais Nin

In chaos, there is fertility.

Anais Nin

In creation alone there is the possibility of perfection.

Anais Nin

It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.

Anais Nin

Keeping a Diary all my life helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of writing.

Anais Nin

Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept because I was no longer a child with a child’s blind faith. I wept because my eyes were opened to reality.

Anais Nin