Many people know how to criticize, but few know how to praise.
In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live.
You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of the family.
I never posed as a saint. I would have slept with a man for nothing if I liked him well enough.
I don't care to dress up except when it is necessary or good for my business.
Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.