“I am completely half afraid to think.”
“The only thing that I am completely certain of after this experience is that I am no longer afraid of death.”
“I wish I were half as smart as I think I am.”
“I am afraid that my children won't think of me as anyone but their mother.”
“I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled.”
“Oh, to be half as wonderful as my children thought I was when he was small, and only half as stupid as my teenager now thinks I am.”