Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1906 - 2001
Born: 22 June 1906, Englewood, New Jersey
Died: 7 February 2001, Passumpsic, Vermont
Born Anne Spencer Morrow, after graduating from The Chapin School at New York City Anne earned her BA from Smith College where her mother was a trustee. She met Charles Lindbergh in Mexico while her father was a partner at J. P. Morgan, by the time they were married in 1929 Mr Morrow was the US ambassador to Mexico. Anne soon learned to fly and the Lindberghs flew over 40,000 miles together charting potential international air routes. Their first son was kidnapped at 20 months, the media attention from the kidnapping, investigation, discovery of the child's body, and the trial drove the Lindberghs to live in seclusion in Europe. During that period they became convinced that fascism, or something similar, was the regrettable "wave of the future", and they opposed the US entry into World War II. This stance destroyed their good public image in the US, but their writing after the war largely restored their stature. Anne's "Gift from the Sea" was a significant element in both the environmental and feminist movements.
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- A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side. permalink
Anne Morrow Lindbergh - A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it. permalink
Anne Morrow Lindbergh - After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood. permalink
Anne Morrow Lindbergh - America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future. permalink
Anne Morrow Lindbergh - Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer. permalink
Anne Morrow Lindbergh - But total freedom is never what one imagines and, in fact, hardly exists. It comes as a shock in life to learn that we usually only exchange one set of restrictions for another. The second set, however, is self-chosen, and therefore easier to accept. permalink
Anne Morrow Lindbergh - By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class. permalink
Anne Morrow Lindbergh - Certain springs are tapped only when we are alone. permalink
Anne Morrow Lindbergh - Don't wish me happiness-I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor-I will need them all. permalink
Anne Morrow Lindbergh - For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair. permalink
Anne Morrow Lindbergh - For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one. permalink
Anne Morrow Lindbergh - Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. permalink
Anne Morrow Lindbergh - Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone, his own burdens, his own way. permalink
Anne Morrow Lindbergh - Him that I love, I wish to be free - even from me. permalink
Anne Morrow Lindbergh - I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly. permalink
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