One fellow I was dating in medical school ... was a veterinarian and he wanted to get married. I said, but you're going to be movi...ng to Minneapolis, and he said, oh, you can quit and I'll take care of you. I said, "Go."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I got a little secretarial job after college, but I thought of it as a prelude. Education, work, whatever you did before marriage,... was only a prelude to your real life, which was marriage.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... there was always the assumption, even when I was getting a graduate degree in education, that any work I did was temporary, so...mething to do until I assumed my principal role in life which was to be the perfect wife and mother, supported by my husband. As it turned out, I never had children, and I've supported myself for thirty years. If I'd known I was going to have to do that I would have made some very different decisions. I would have approached work with more seriousness and purpose.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I see in you also there are movements, tremors, tears, desire for the melodious,... I salute your three violinists, endlessly making vibrations, Rigid, relentless, capable of going on for ever;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'll never forget my father's response when I told him I wanted to be a lawyer. He said, "If you do this, no man will ever want yo...u."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are fortunate to have inherited an institution (the House of Lords) which we certainly should never have had the intelligence t...o create. We might have been landed with something like the American Senate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It were a blessed sight to see That child become a willow tree,... His brother trees among. He'd be four times as tall as me, And live three times as long.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »