I am most anxious to give my own children enough love and understanding so that they won't grow up with an aching void in them--like you and I and Harold and Martha. That can never be filled, and one goes around all one's life trying, trying to make up for what one didn't get that was one's birthright, asking the wrong people for it.

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.