“Underneath my grief that day a resolution was hardening into cement: I would never, ever again create something thinking that I would be able to preserve it.”

“My body betrays me. It ages, I don't”

“As a lawyer's daughter, I'd always known that if you want to do something, no matter how far-fetched it may seem to other, you should seek legal advice.”

“...a truly great person has a profound curiosity about the world and the people in it, an interest that encompasses everything and everyone. Real curiosity, I now know, doesn't leave much room for judgement.”

“She who laughs, lasts." kate clinton”

“First you are young, then you are middle aged; then you are old; then you are wonderful." Lady Diana Cooper”

“Everything I had to give went to my children, and though I loved them and my husband utterly, the drudgery of the day-to-day made it seem as if not love but coffee, my Toyota and sheer logistics were what propelled me through life.”