If I'm ever to reach any understanding of myself and the things around me, I must learn to stand alone. That's why I can't stay here with you any longer.

But our home's been nothing but a playpen. I've been your doll-wife here, just as at home I was Papa's doll-child. And in turn the children have been my dolls.…

I have other duties equally sacred ... Duties to myself.

The black, cold, icy water. Down and down, without end - if it would only end.

When true simplicity is gain'd To bow and to bend we shan't be asham'd, To turn, turn will be our delight 'Till by turning, turning we come round right.

However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leavi…

A man's gotta know his limitations.