“Don't ever let fear get in the waybecause youneverknow what's going to open a door.”

“I know betrayal can unravel a man. I learned early on from watching my parents that men are capable of doing terrible things to women when they feel deceived. When the bubble of trust and honesty b...”

“Gran...I just want to say thank you for everything. I didn't realize how much you sacrificed. Children never do. Good Lord made it that way.”

“Preston doesn't do well with trouble. Butthat'swhy I'm here.That's why my name is Mommy.”

“Don't ever let fear get in the way because you never know what's going to open a door.”

“I never knew what Mother knowed,Like how a thread and needle sewed,And how a kiss healed boo-boos fast.Why family knots were made to last.I never knew how Mother sawA caring man in angry pa,A smile...”

“Preston doesn't do well with trouble. Butthat'swhy I'm here.That's why my name is Mommy.”

“It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.”

“It didn't matter that there was a war on our doorstep. She had things to do, places to be.”

“Stranger inside me, when you are born, I will give youa closed book and ask you never to read it, never rest, never forgive a man who wants to save you.”

“She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, feared at tea-parties, hated in shops, and loved at crises.”

“For we think back through our mothers if we are women.”

“He is a young man with a future of power and opportunity and we are young women destined to be either wives and mothers at the very best, or spinster parasites at the worst.”