The thing to remember about fathers is, they're men. A girl has to keep it in mind.

In a successful marriage, there is no such thing as one's way. There is only the way of both, only the bumpy, dusty, difficult, but always mutual path!

[A father is] chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, believing change is a threat... like your first shoes with heels on.

Aunts are discreet, a little shy by instinct. They forbear to pry.

The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an a vocation. It becomes an obsession.

Of the small gifts of heaven, /It seems to me a more than equal share / At birth was given / To girls with curly hair.

The thing to remember about fathers is, they're men. A girl has to keep it in mind: They are dragon-seekers, bent on improbable rescues. Scratch any father, you find someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, believing change is a threat - like your first shoes with heels on, like your first bicycle it took such months to get.

Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man.

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.

Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.