Researchers found no evidence Anaïs Nin wrote it. The earliest close match is a 1984 chapter epigraph credited to “Lassie Benton,” and Elizabeth Appell, formerly Lassie Benton, says she wrote it in 1979 as the public relations director of John F. Kennedy University, for a class schedule. The first ascription to Nin turns up in a March 1988 Unitarian Universalist journal.