I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son than the author of a great book or the painter of a great masterpiece.

It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.

it is not tears but determination that makes pain bearable.

No one will ever feel sorry for me.

I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.