Any marriage worth the name is no better than a series of beginnings - many of them abortive.

The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it.

... the truth is exactly that which can't be got into words. We are forced to lie, a little or, if we are inferior, much.

The gesture with which one generation guards the next is the movement, and the only time we see it clearly, of life itself.

The young are so much more vulnerable than the old - the stuff is still warm and malleable, it takes impressions.

giving the utmost of herself to three absorbing interests [marriage, motherhood, career] ... was a problem for a superwoman, and a job for a superwoman, and only some such fabled being could have accomplished it with success.

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.