all children blackmail their parents with their innocence.

suicide is a crime - the only crime that, if successful, guarantees that the perpetrator will not be punished for it. This makes it the most serious crime of all.

What do you do with mother love and mother wit when the babies are grown and gone away?

There is nothing that you can do to me that my own craziness doesn't do to me smarter and faster and better.

The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness.

What cook can match herself against hunger and memory?

She now knew that the death she feared might not be a physical one, that it could be death of the will, the soul, the mind, the laws, and thus not death, but a perpetual dying.