That impresses me more, inventin' electricity.
Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical immortality and triumph over the fear of death.
Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.
There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die.
In England and America a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable than virile; on the continent of Europe it often means that its owner makes a special claim to virility.
It isn't only living people who die, it is great stretches of living, which can die even when the people who lived there still exist.
Yes,” said Mamma, “this is the worst of life, that love does not give us common sense but is a sure way of losing it. We love people, and we say that we are going to do more for them than friendship, but it makes such fools of us that we do far less, indeed sometimes what we do could be mistaken for the work of hatred.
I'm 60 years of age. That's 16 Celsius.
OCTOBER BABY is a profoundly beautiful story and a powerful testament to the importance of every human life.
I lost my daughter at 21. I had to give her up because I was broke, no place to take her, no money to take her. That was very traumatic.
Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.