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.

It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays.

You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of the family.

Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again.

Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk.

What impressed me most about New York were its huge apartment houses.

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.