Shunning the upstart shower, / The cold and cursory scrub, / I celebrate the power / That lies within the Tub.

It is the leisured, I have noticed, who rebel the most at an interruption of routine.

Rain is my lover, my apple strudel. / It haunts my heels like a pedigreed poodle. / Beyond the seas or across the nation, / It follows me faithful on every vacation.

God know that a mother need fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul.

A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can't fold a paper in a crowded train.

Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all.

There is satisfaction in seeing one's household prosper; in being both bountiful and provident.