...problem is not merely one of Woman and Career, Woman and the Home, Woman and Independence. It is more basically: how to remain whole in the midst of the...periphery and tend to crack the hub of the wheel. What is the answer? There is no easy answer, no complete answer. I have only clues, shells from the...

...problem is not merely one of Woman and Career, Woman and the Home, Woman and Independence. It is more basically: how to remain whole in the midst of the...periphery and tend to crack the hub of the wheel. The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. To dig for treasures...

...the ideal of the contemplative, artist, or saint — the inner inviolable core, the single eye . . . how to remain balanced, no matter what centrifugal...at the periphery and tend to crack the hub of the wheel."8 Nor is the experience of fragmentation limited to women in the paid work force. Homemakers...

...assure you there are three people who were totally impressed with his response — Ben, Jessica, and me! How to remain whole in the midst of the distractions...matter what shocks come in at the periphery and tend to crash the hub of the wheel . . . Perhaps a first step, is in the simplification of life, in cutting...

...eventuality. The words from Anne Morrow Lindbergh's Gift From the Sea (1955, Pantheon) fit well here: "...how to remain whole in the midst of the distractions...to remain strong, no matter what shocks come in." So the next time social slights or indignities threaten to get under your skin and cause mental anguish,...