“Only a teaspoon of self-pity, girl. Every day give yourself a teaspoonful, but only a teaspoonful. Fill it up full, but only once! Don’t let yourself have more. You can’t live off it. But just a bit of it is like a tonic.”

“But comes a time for a woman when she stops thinking of herself as a girl, as a person of possibilities. She starts looking at the plain facts of herself. Her body that’s become the body that she has and her habits becoming the habits that she’s written in stone. Her “haves” being the ones she’s got and maybe not getting anymore.”

“Try more things. Cross some lines.”

“With these coming children we never relinquish the past. We keep seeing somebody gone in each new one.”

“Funny how you dig yourself into a hole by the teaspoon.”

“Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.”

“It was like trying to bail out an ocean of water with a teaspoon.”