“The small details of life often hide a great significance.”

“Things written down can cause a great deal of harm. All too often, people don't consider that.”

“Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life sized.”

“Most mothers worry when their daughters reach adolescence but I was the opposite. I relaxed, I sighed with relief. Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life sized.”

“My hands are out of practice, my eyes disused. Most of what I do is drawing, because the preparation of the surface, the laborious underpainting and detailed concentration... are too much for me. I have lost confidence: perhaps all I will ever be is what I am now.”

“Besides, who would think of marrying a mothball? A question my mother put to me often, later, in other forms.”

“We get along by a symbiotic adjustment of habits and with a minimum of that pale-mauve hostility you often find among women.”