Let's consider the business of depth. I never take a superficial view of life; it's almost impossible for the me to accept something at face value. This can span a pretty broad range. It's been said that when I merely say 'Good morning', some wonder exactly what I mean by it. My motivation and deepest need is to understand - both myself and the people around me. In short, I am a woman who expects something more from a relationship than surface tokens. Love, to me, is more than demonstrations of affections or security or sexual gratification, or even intellectual camaraderie. It's a bond which - hopefully, from my point of view - touches the soul, and means no secrets. No secrets doesn't mean the superficial way of interpreting it either, like where were you at five o'clock on Thursday afternoon. It means that I expect honesty of character. I have a lot of compassion. I am probably more capable than any other of both understanding and accepting human weaknesses and human darkness. I'm not afraid of ugliness, internal or external, because to me dark and light make life interesting. What I can't stand is the hypocrite, the person who lives in pretence. If you need your masks and your props, stay away because I will see right through you; and I won't stop at seeing, either. I have a strong tendency to try to remake others.

Unfortunately for me, there are a great many men roaming the world to whom the idea of being emotionally honest, or straightforward in revealing their own motives, is absolute horror.

Not that that's such a reprehensible thing. It isn't easy to face the mirror, but I think you need to really face it. But this is the one area where I show my intolerance. I can accept anything in anybody except what I consider to be weakness of character - that is, the person who hasn't the strength to face himself.

On the one hand, it makes me a rare woman, because I'm capable of not only seeing but also sharing your pain and your dreams and your burdens; and my enormous strength of will and loyalty are unshakeable even when yours are flagging a little. Justice is a thing I as a woman understand. I think my sense of justice is so keen and so sensitive and it's virtually inflexible. If I think you're in the right, then I'm capable of sacrificing completely my own desires and opinions. Never maliciously, or with cruelty. - Bottom line, I want honesty and integrity...along with values.