there is a refuge

There is a solitude, which each and every one of us has always carried with him, more inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains, more profound than the midnight sea; the solitude of self. Our inner being, which we call ourself, no eye nor touch of man or angel has ever pierced.

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American writer and activist who was a leader in the women's rights movement in the United States during the mid-to-late 19th century.