A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.

Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment. All that remains of my mother is what I remember and what I have written for and about her. Eventually that is all that will remain of [my husband] and me. Writing sometimes feels frivolous and sometimes sacred, but memory is one of my strongest muses. I serve her with my words. So long as people read, those we love survive however evanescently. As do we writers, saying with our life's work, Remember. Remember us. Remember me.

Troubles cured you salty as a country ham, smoky to the taste, thick-skinned and tender inside.

Remember that every son had a mother whose beloved son he was, and every woman had a mother whose beloved son she wasn't.

I communicate much better with cats, usually. I know them and their body language - as my own cats know mine very well. Cats are adept at reading subtle signals.

If what we change does not change us we are playing with blocks.

i find it easy to admire in trees what depresses me in people