In order to be Miss Anybody you had to have excellent grades, and I had terrible grades because of my dyslexia.

Marriage. Isn't it great? Each time you fall back in love with your [spouse] it gets better and better.

If you do everything in your power to avoid writing and still can't, then you must be a writer.

Don't give up before the miracle happens.

Daddy gave me real useful information to protect me in the real world. If anyone hits me, I'm not to hit them back. I wait until their back is turned, then hit them in the head with a brick.

There Lives More Faith in Honest Doubt, Believe Me, Than Half the Creeds. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson

I brought a picture with me that I had at home, of a girl in a swing with a castle and pretty blue bubbles in the background, to hang in my room, but that nurse here said the girl was naked from the waist up and not appropriate. You know, I've had that picture for fifty years and I never knew she was naked. If you ask me, I don't think the old men they've got here can see well enough to notice that she's bare-breasted. But, this is a Methodist home, so she's in the closet with my gallstones.