Revolutionaries Don't Get Job Security.

My Mother - My Stepmother, Really, She Herself Have Been What They Call An Elocutionist. And She Was The One Who First Encouraged Me To Write Poetry, Because She Used To Read It To Us. And Then When I Began To Write When I Was Nine Years Old, My First Poem Was Published In The Amsterdam News. I Called It "the Graveyard."

The Divorce Rate Would Be Lower If Instead Of Marrying For Better Or Worse People Would Marry For Good.

I Don't Want To Have My Children Have To Get Dressed Up To Go Out To Say Good Morning And Deserve To Live Among Some Other People. I Want To Be Able To Be Free And Take For Granted That My Neighbors Like Me And I Like Them.

That We Arrived At Fifty Years Together Is Due As Much To Luck As To Love, And A Talent For Knowing, When We Stumble, Where To Fall, And How To Get Up Again.

Sorrow For Not Understanding Like I Understand Now The Unpredictable, Profound Journey That Marriage Is.