"'I cannot be faithful to others, only to myself.' She had her own work to do, and her faithfulness was to her expansive nature, her passion for life, and her work. She awakened others' talents, but maintained a space for her own...She showed remarkable persistence in maintaining her identity...She preserved her autonomy while surrounded by powerful, even overpowering men...Her freedom consisted in acting out her deep unconscious needs. She saw independence as the only way to achieve movement. And for her, movement was constant growth and evolution...She demanded the freedom to change, to evolve, to grow. She asserted her integrity against sentimentality and hypocritical definitions of loyalties and duties."
From In Favor of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays, by Anais Nin.
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