Maybe we're all like that with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary.

I love research. I'd go so far as to say I'm a research fanatic.

Our words had to be circumspect. We could not write anything too negative about our circumstances. This was tricky, since the very form of a married woman's letter needed to include the usual complaints -- that we were pathetic, powerless, worked to the bone, homesick, and sad. We were supposed to speak directly about our feelings without appearing ungrateful, no-account, or unfilial.

Maybe we're all like that with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary.

Seeing something once is better than hearing about it a hundred times. Doing something once is better than seeing it a hundred times.

People write to me all the time, and I write back.

The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child.