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've had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it.

it is not tears but determination that makes pain bearable.

Sedentary people are apt to have sluggish minds. A sluggish mind is apt to be reflected in flabbiness of body and in a dullness of expression that invites no interest and gets none.

The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.

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.