To understand just one life you have to swallow the world. . . do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?
I was named Beekeeper of the Year by the Florida State Beekeeping Association.
It's wonderful to me that bees have this simple, age-old thing going on.
Getting out from under the shadow of Henry Fonda was difficult.
I know I'm responsible for not having got the kind of roles that I'd have liked to.
The word courage - God, I love that word. Words are so important to me.
You don't become the character
Personal answers to ultimate questions. That is what we seek.
If there be anything that can render the soul calm, dissipate its scruples and dispel its fears, sweeten its sufferings by the anointing of love, impart strength to all its actions, and spread abroad the joy of the Holy Spirit in its countenance and words, it is this simple and childlike repose in the arms of God.
My climb to political success was no elevator ride, and it has not always been pretty, but I persevered as one of a handful of women in the male-dominated world of politics.
My earliest poems were a way of talking to somebody. I suppose to myself.