Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.

I answer the heroic question, 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is in my heart and mind and memories.

I am not competing with anyone other than myself. I want to be excellent at whatever I do.

I've never had a dislike for men. I've been badly treated by some. But I've been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.

No one comes from the earth like grass. We come like trees. We all have roots.

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

In a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists.