I was not ugly. I might never be anything for men to lose their heads about, but I need never again be ugly. This knowledge was like a song within me. Suddenly it all came together. If you were healthy, fit, and well-dressed, you could be attractive.
No, I don't take soup. You can't build a meal on a lake.
I am going to make everything around me beautiful - that will be my life.
When one begins to think of oneself as growing old, one is already old.
A house should be a synthesis of comfort, practicality, and tradition.
a woman of the world should always be the mistress of sorrow and not its servant. She may have a grief but never a grievance.