... you can't put out a light just because it may light the wrong person.
That's the worst of a war--you have to go on hearing about it so long.
As I grow older, I think friendship between women is a thing to cherish.
Not having children makes less work-but it makes a quiet house.
We all go through the same things - it's all just a different kind of the same thing.
For nothing is so hard to hear as that which is half known, and evaded. One never denies so hotly as in denying to one's self what one fears is true, and one never resents so bitterly as in resenting that which one cannot say one has the right to resent.