"I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not feel cheated by God in any way."

"You can't be a woman and not know how to love."

"Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place."

"It seems to me that the human race is like a lot of children playing in a nursery, and the grown-ups are not coming."

"Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground."