Every woman should have a daughter to tell her stories to. Otherwise, the lessons learned are as useless as spare buttons from a discarded shirt. And all that is left is a fading name and the shape of a nose or the color of hair. The men who write the history books will tell you the stories of battles and conquests. But the women will tell you the stories of people's hearts.

Every woman needs a daughter to tell her stories to.

To give up too easily leads to regret, yet trying and then failing can lead us to second chances if we do not accept it as a failure, but a chance to learn.

You ain’t dead yet, so you ain’t done.

I know what it is to hope and pray so hard that you're sure God will answer your prayer just so you'll stop asking.

Adversity in life does not rob your heart of beauty. It simply teaches it a new song to sing.

There are no completely good or bad people. Everybody makes mistakes, or bad choices. It's how we live with them that make us the people we are.