Words Not My Own

Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn't know you had, and dealing with fears you didn't know existed.
~Linda Wooten

Health is not valued until sickness comes.
~Dr. Thomas Fuller

The test of good manners is to be patient with bad ones.
~Gabirol (Solomon ben Yehuda ibn Gabirol), The Choice of Pearls

The phrase "working mother" is redundant.
~Jane Sellman

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
~Japanese Proverb

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
~Aristotle

Make your own recovery the first priority in your life.
~Robin Norwood

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
~Oprah Winfrey

Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.
~Joan Didion

There must be millions of people all over the world who never get any love letters... I could be their leader.
~Charlie Brown

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth, only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
~C.S. Lewis

With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.
~Isadora Duncan