If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first.

Women on the way up generally fail to win popularity contests. The only compensation is that once you're there you will become very well liked.

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.

Most meetings are too long, too dull, too unproductive - and too much a part of corporate life to be abandoned.

... letters freeze time for us, eternalizing shared experiences so we can go back and draw strength from them. Letters are like deposits in a secret bank that can be withdrawn when they are needed. And as we look back in love, we appreciate anew the thought and time that was taken to express those feelings.

Grandmothers are to life what the Ph.D. is to education. There is nothing you can feel, taste, expect, predict, or want that the grandmothers in your family do not know about in detail.

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.