Glory falls around us as we sob a dirge of desolation on the Cross

If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England - you couldn't have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.

Original thinking migrates each day in search of nourishment.

I always felt, if I can get to a library, I'll be OK.

Happiness is a chance to talk to a friend, to hear good music, to have a good glass of wine. Happiness is a chance to be myself and to find people with whom I agree or who I don't agree but I can learn something.

To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.

I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.