When reading the insightful works of Anne Morrow Lindbergh,
we often forget she was, in fact, that famous mother whose baby
was kidnapped and brutally killed.

“Woman’s life today is tending more and more toward the state William James describes so well in the German word, ‘Zerrissenheit: torn-to-pieces-hood.’ She cannot live perpetually in ‘Zerrissenheit.’ She will be shattered into a thousand pieces. On the contrary, she must consciously encourage those pursuits which oppose the centrifugal forces of today…. Solitude, says the moon shell. Center-down, say the Quaker saints. To the possession of the self the way is inward, says Plotinus. The cell of self-knowledge is the stall in which the pilgrim must be reborn, says St. Catherine of Siena.”
– Anne Morrow Lindbergh,
   Gift from the Sea, 1955