The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires.

War Without and Within: Diaries And Letters Of Anne Morrow Lindbergh 1939–1944. Morrow a partner in J. Anne would later benefit from this routine eventually publishing her later diaries to critical acclaim.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh (née Anne Spencer Morrow; June 22 1906 – February 7 2001) was an American author aviator and the spouse of fellow aviator Charles Lindbergh. She was an acclaimed author whose books and articles spanned the genres of poetry to non-fiction touching upon topics as diverse as youth and age; love and marriage; peace solitude and contentment as well as the role of women in the 20th century.