Love opens the doors into everything… including, and perhaps most of all, the door into one's own secret, and often terrible and frightening, real self.

—May Sarton

About May Sarton

Eleanore Marie Sarton (May 3, 1912 – July 16, 1995), known by the pen name May Sarton, was a Belgian and American novelist, poet, and memoirist. Notably, Sarton came out as a lesbian in her writing in 1965, a time when it was highly unusual to do so.

More quotations from May Sarton

History

  1. Added
  2. Wording changed
    Previous wording
    Love opens the doors into everything . . . including, and perhaps most of all, the door into one's own secret, and often terrible and frightening, real self.