Anais Nin turns 70 during this diary entry. Her are a few of her thoughts as she is coming into 70:
- she is depressed by the victory of Nixon
- she says being famous has enabled her to meet other artists, travel to other countries, discover new ideas
- she believes we need to make a synthesis between the public self and the private
- she feels some women make war on man, psychology, introspection, individuality
- her efforts are directed at liberating women psychologically, emotionally
- because of the radiation done for her cancer, she has to live on tea and toast when on lecture tours and can't have wine
- she loves the mixture of an active adventurous life matched by philosophy and psychological awareness
- she doesn't consider marriage any more difficult than other relationships with family, children, friends: "They all demand our fullest creativity. They do not happen miraculously."
- she writes to a friend: "Tomorrow I am seventy - and have no time to wait wait wait"
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