Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there.
Unless the gentle inherit the earth, / There will be no earth.
What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.
I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward
I know you have much to bear with in me, and I really do sometimes in you, but I have never looked at friendship in a deep sense as easy or entirely comfortable.
Women's work is always toward wholeness.