Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?

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.

It's wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.

Whenever I held my newborn baby in my arms, I used to think that what I said and did to him could have an influence not only on him but on all whom he met, not only for a day or a month or a year, but for all eternity - a very challenging and exciting thought for a mother.

Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?

My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.

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