many people choose, early on, their own truths from the large smorgasbord available. And once they've chosen them, for good reason or no reason, they then proceed rather selectively, wisely gathering whatever will bolster them or at least carry out the color scheme.

When there's a lot of it around, you never want it very much.

... I've never found anything whatsoever that is as easy to do the right way as the wrong way, and if there is such a thing I would like to know about it.

As millions of women have done before me, I pulled domesticity over my head like a blanket and found I was still cold.

You're not supposed to cuss when you're an old lady, and just when there's so much more to cuss about.

Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.

Every idea is my last. I feel sure of it. So, I try to do the best with each as it comes and that's where my responsibility ends. But I just don't wait for ideas. I look for them. Constantly. And if I don't use the ideas that I find, they're going to quit showing up.