Power, like fear, had a taste. But power tasted better.

So, if you have a grandma, thank the good Lord above, and give your grandmamma hugs and kisses, for grandmothers are to love.

I thought about all of us women and how we spend half our lives rebelling against our mothers and the next half rebelling against our daughters.

All friends are not for life, but if you have a true friend, you have a life.

A letter is never ill-timed; it never interrupts. Instead it waits for us to find the opportune minute, the quiet moment to savor the message. There is an element of timelessness about letter writing.

Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.

A child who has a grandparent has a softened view of life, the feeling that there is more to life than what we see, more than getting and gaining, winning and losing.