It's like I'm managing to achieve all this success in spite of my affliction ... Would you ever put that in the headline for a male star?

She wore a wide-brimmed black hat and men's trousers, and she carried a satchel of books to ensure that if she should finish one volume she would be handily prepared with the next.

If a woman doesn't write her own history, there are very few who will.

She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand, that no is a word the world never learned to say to her.

A woman is a vehicle of life. Life has overtaken her. Woman is what it is all about-the giving of birth and the giving of nourishment.

Who has not seen a frail, clinging-vine type of woman, who upon the death of her husband strainghtens up and becomes an oak, around which the growing children twine their lives, and are forever greatful for such a mother? But this strength would never have come out and developed had it not been for the tears that watered the vine and made it into an oak.

A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present, and the hope and promise of the future.

Strength and honor are her clothing.

Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?

You can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can't fool mom.

Stretch pants - the garment that made skiing a spectator sport.

I fell in love with you when you were forming in my womb. Now I carry you in my heart instead of my arms.