“Children can be your heartache. But that doesn't matter, you have to go on and have them . . . it works out.”

“We're in the world, not against it. It doesn't work to try to standoutside things and run them, that way. It just doesn't work, it goes against life. There is a way but you have to follow it. The world is, no matter how we think it ought to be. You have to be with it. You have to let it be.”

“Nobody likes children, your mother assured you. That doesn't mean you don't have them.”

“It doesn't matter if you have new parts, old parts or spare parts. You can shine no matter what your made of.”

“Your children are the greatest gift God will give to you, and their souls the heaviest responsibility He will place in your hands. Take time with them, teach them to have faith in God. Be a person in whom they can have faith. When you are old, nothing else you've done will have mattered as much.”

“It's come at last", she thought, "the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache.”