The only two good words that can be said for a hurricane are that it gives sufficient warning of its approach, and that it blows from one point of the compass at a time.
Gertrude AthertonWriting was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.
Gertrude Athertonher age was that indeterminate mixture of everlasting youth and anticipated wisdom which is the glory and the curse of genius.
Gertrude Atherton