The older I get, the more I appreciate my rural childhood. I spent a lot of time outdoors, unsupervised, which is a blessing.

Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't; but we wear it all the same

I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they're feeling because that's how I read the seed catalogs in January.

Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.

The happiest people are the ones with the most community.

She kept swimming out into life because she hadn't yet found a rock to stand on.

...our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.