The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.