Is life a pregnancy? That would make death a birth.

The enchantment of the sky, ever changing beauty almost ignored. Beyond words, without fixed form, not to be understood, or stated. It ravished away dullness, worry, even pain. It graces life when nothing else does. It is the first marvel of the day. Even when leaden grey it is still a friend, withdrawn for a time.

Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.

No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

Difficulties are what makes it honorable and interesting to be alive.

Claim the events of your life! When you posses all you have been and done, you are fierce with reality.

It sometimes looks as though woman would not be woman unless man insisted upon it, since she tends so markedly to be just a human being when away from men, and only on their approach does she begin to play her required role.