The very nature of marriage means saying yes before you know what it will cost. Though you may say the “I do” of the wedding ritual in all sincerity, it is the testing of that vow over time that makes you married.

I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes the life out of them.

But in order to have an adult faith, most of us have to outgrow and unlearn much of what we were taught about religion.

One may have been a fool, but there's no foolishness like being bitter.

Changing husbands is only changing troubles.

There are men I could spend eternity with. But not this life.

When I was a child, it was a matter of pride that I could plow through a Nancy Drew story in one afternoon, and begin another in the evening. . . . I was probably trying to impress the librarians who kept me supplied with books.