Visiting is a pleasure; being visited is usually a mixed or ambivalent joy. ... The visitor can always go home; the visitee is already home, trapped like a rat in a drainpipe.
Barbara HollandLife, after we'd had a few millennia to observe it, turned out to be dreadfully unfair, so we invented sports.
Barbara HollandSuccess in war was the only success that counted; failure was a disgrace to be wiped out only by starting another war and winning it.
Barbara Hollanda woman may be called a wife and mother for most of her life, while a man is called a husband and father only at his funeral.
Barbara Holland