Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.