The best enjoyment is
The best enjoyment is half disappointment to what we intend or would have in this world. Gamaliel Bailey
Half
Often when I walked
Often when I walked alone in the mountains, I tried to make sense out of the two halves of my life. What went on in the city during the week seemed chaotic and unrelated to the events in my mountain world. Galen Rowell
One cannot deny that
One cannot deny that if a person has the energy to get you interested and excited, then that is half the battle won, like all the great leaders had this quality. Gale Harold
A seasoned woman is
A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experiences. Like a complex wine, she can be alternately sweet, tart, sparkling, mellow. She is both maternal and playful. Assured, alluring, and resourceful. She is less likely to have an agenda than a young woman-no biological clock tick-tocking beside her lover’s bed, no campaign … Read more
It’s horrible, horrible, horrible.
It’s horrible, horrible, horrible. It took a year and a half until I found out that I had post-natal depression. Gail Porter
If I’m watching my
If I’m watching my son play soccer, that’s what I’m doing. If I’m going to a school concert, that’s what I’m doing. I turn the phone off. I actively tune into whatever I’m doing. I walk every evening with one of my sons and for that half an hour, 45 minutes, that’s what I’m doing. … Read more
Of course, Texas is
Of course, Texas is so huge it really is empty places; people can easily drive an hour and a half to work every day, so even if they’re actually living in the suburbs, it sure feels as if they’re in a remote location. Gail Collins
The key to success
The key to success for any woman who wants to have a really serious career and a family is to marry a guy who is going to take at least half the responsibility for the house and kids – and sometimes more than half. Gail Collins
I had to share
I had to share a room with my sister, who is five and a half years older than I am. We didn’t get along well, and I felt that I had no privacy. So books were my privacy, because no one could join me in a book, no one could comment on the action or … Read more
Alexia had found pregnancy
Alexia had found pregnancy relatively manageable, up to a point. That point having been some three weeks ago, at which juncture her natural reserves of control gave way to sentimentality. Only yesterday she had ended breakfast sobbing over the fried eggs because they looked at her funny. The pack had spent a good half hour … Read more