You know, one of my fears about living alone so long is that you get used to doing everything your own way.

Folks want to glow, to leave their worries and dead skin behind.

I have a big mouth, and over the years, as the eldest of five, I have had a tendency to speak when no one really cared.

Good parents have children who do terrible things and vice-versa.

I take what people feel and think, especially when it's different from, very seriously, and I find it liberating.

life is like a jigsaw puzzle, you have to see the whole picture, then put it together piece by piece!

Let me put it this way: when I read, I learned the world was not as small as my house. And that everybody in my home town was not representative of the way people in the world were raised. And that was what saved me.