Anne Morrow Lindbergh - Talk Quotes

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Marriage is tough, because it is woven of all these various elements, the weak and the strong. "In love-ness" is fragile for it is woven only with the gossamer threads of beauty. It seems to me absurd to talk about "happy" and "unhappy" marriages.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

If one talks to more than four people, it is an audience; and one cannot really think or exchange thoughts with an audience.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

People talk about love as though it were something you could give, like an armful of flowers. And a lot of people give love like that — just dump it down on top of you, a useless strong-scented burden.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

It is not restful, it is not possible to talk wholeheartedly to more than one person at a time. You can't really talk with a person unless you surrender to them, for the moment (all other talk is futile). You can't surrender to more than one person a moment.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The nice thing about really intelligent people is that when you talk with them they make you feel intelligent too.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I do not like talking casually to people — it does not interest me — and most of them are unwilling to talk at all seriously.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

People talk about 'sex' as though it hopped about by itself, like a frog!

Anne Morrow Lindbergh