Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?
ROSE KENNEDYNow I am in my eighties, and I have known the joys and sorrows of a full life. Age, however, has its privileges. One is to reminisce, and another is to reminisce selectively.
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Any woman who still thinks marriage is a fifty-fifty proposition is only proving that she doesn’t understand either men or percentages.
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I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.
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My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.
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What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?
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If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, it’s just possible you haven’t grasped the situation.
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Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn’t we?
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In my life, I am often reminded that there is a destiny that rules over us, because no one whom I know about or whom I read about seems to be completely happy during a long time.
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Prosperity tries the fortunate; adversity the great.
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I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.
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It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.
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Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night’s sleep, and you can’t settle anything until morning anyway.
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To my mind, there was no one in the world like my father. Wherever he was, there was magic in the air.
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My father had extravagant notions of my beauty, grace, wit, and charm.
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My greatest regret is not having gone to Wellesley College. it is something I have felt a little sad about my whole life.
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I’ve had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it.
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