I'm a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.

Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.

Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.

I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.

The home is the child's first school, the parent is the child's first teacher, and reading is the child's first subject.

I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.

My worst expectations never happened.