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.

I have reason to be shy. I've been hurt plenty.

There had been lots of crises in my life. And there was plenty of spunk and battle cry still left in me.

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

I wondered what I would do if I didn't have my God to turn to and be able to read the Book He had divinely inspired.

When I act I try to express the suffering or joy I've known during my lifetime.

What broke Mom's heart was realizing that her children knew nothing and cared nothing about the better side of life.