The successful truck gardener can never go out to dinner in the summer or spend a week end away, because his conscience tells him he has to be at home eating up his corn or packaging his beans for the freezer.

Say what you will, making a marriage work is a woman's business.

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shop-talk of the scientist, and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.

History must always be taken with a grain of salt. It is, after all, not a science but an art.

Children are forced to live very rapidly in order to live at all. They are given only a few years in which to learn hundreds of thousands of things about life and the planet and themselves.

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