Parents' ability to survive a child's unabating needs, wants, and demands...varies enormously. Some people can give and give....Wh...ether children are good or bad, brilliant or just about normal, enormously popular or born loners, they keep their cool and say just the right thing at all times...even when they are miserable themselves, inexhaustible springs of emotional energy, reserved just for children, keep flowing unabated.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey,... And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch and not their terror.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To have a place full of delights and nothing but delights, which one does not have to explain and defend to people who have ideas ...unsympathetic to one, it is to economize the forces which keep one from ending like the wisteria, from committing the unpardonable sin of doing things with difficulty.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your appro...aching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into whatever it ta...kes to keep you afloat.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »