I am not blonde, yes. Have I dreamt about having a model contract? No. But have I dreamed about winning Wimbledon? Absolutely.
I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.
The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.
Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers?
The painful things seemed like knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary for keeping the beads in place.
Weeping is terrible for the complexion" said Leonie, holding Shayndel close, "but it is very good for the soul.
It's a good thing babies don't give you a lot of time to think. You fall in love with them and when you realize how much they love you back, life is very simple.
There is nothing like the camaraderie that one has with fellow drinkers. It is a club you never leave once you join. Well, willingly or easily.
We should never become despondent because the weather is bad, nor should we turn triumphalist because the sun shines.
The secret of a happy home is that members of the family learn to give and receive love.
No man at bottom means injustice; it is always for some obscure distorted image of a right that he contends: an obscure image diffracted, exaggerated, in the wonderfulest way by natural dimness and selfishness; getting tenfold more diffracted by exasperation of contest, till at length it become all but irrecognis-able.