A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

I really have no idea why it would take seven weeks to give teachers the pay that they are due. I would love to know what they're doing with all that money.

Actually, we had negotiated for it years ago and the school board was ready to ratify it and the community went bonkers over it, ... wonderful Wednesdays.

When you have Kelly girls and boys grading those things that will determine whether teachers' will get that pay is unconscionable in my estimation.

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.

Let me learn now where Beauty is; I was born to know her mysteries . . .

It is dangerous for a woman to defy the gods; To taunt them with the tongue's thin tip, Or strut in the weakness of mere humanity, Or draw a line daring them to cross.

Heaven's Virginia when the year's at its Spring.

Guilt pins a fig-leaf; Innocence is its own adorning.

Is any prophet come to teach a new thing Now in a more apt time?