How Happy Is The Optimist

Marriage Is A Lot Of Things-an Alliance, A Sacrament, A Comedy, Or A Mistake; But It Is Definitely Not A Partnership Because That Implies Equal Gain. And Every Right-thinking Woman Knows The Profit In Matrimony Is By All Odds Hers.

It's This No-nonsense Side Of Women That Is Pleasant To Deal With. They Are The Real Sportsmen.

God Knows That A Mother Needs Fortitude And Courage And Tolerance And Flexibility And Patience And Firmness And Nearly Every Other Brave Aspect Of The Human Soul. But Because I Happen To Be A Parent Of Almost Fiercely Maternal Nature, I Praise Casualness. It Seems To Me The Rarest Of Virtues. It Is Useful Enough When Children Are Small. It Is Useful To The Point Of Necessity When They Are Adolescents.

A Mother's Hardest To Forgive. Life Is The Fruit She Longs To Hand You Ripe On A Plate. And While You Live, Relentlessly She Understands You.

A Bit Of Trash Now And Then Is Good For The Severest Reader. It Provides The Necessary Roughage In The Literary Diet.