Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.
I don't think modesty is a very good virtue, if it is a virtue at all. A modest person will drop the modesty in a minute. It's a learned affectation.
I became the kind of parent my mother was to me.
Oh, the holiness of being the injured party.
I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
The woman who survives intact and happy must be at once tender and tough.