The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask. I have shed my mask.

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.