It was marrying that made women appreciate other women.

When it's raining pudding, hold up your bowl.

The Red Kimono tells it all—the bitterness and pain as well as the joy, pride and patriotism of a people too resilient to be beaten by racism.

You know what a storyteller is, don't you? It's a person that has a good memory who hopes other people don't.

Nobody starts out a perfect quilter.

Jam on a winter took away the blue devils. It was like tasting summer.

You may hate being pregnant, but the minute the baby is born, she is God's precious child, given to you as a gift.

... I told him I was so happy that I had nothing else to pray for. 'Why, 'says I, I've got prayers to sell.

Stories were a living thing. They changed to suit the teller or the times.

She wasn't any bigger than a minute and had hair like wild gold, and she was always merry as a marriage bell.

Both of them loved the earth and the things that grew in it.

I cannot resist your heart, you are so hard to find, each and every night I’m always thinking of you

As God achieved with devotion, success is achieved with dedication.

You can't be loyal to others if you're not loyal to your own nature first.

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy even if you're not part of their happiness.

people run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.

Every time you win, you're reborn; when you lose, you die a little.

Being humble and sweet is the hardest thing you can do.

Loneliness is like starvation: you don't realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat.

There are a few things that deal with passion. There's Prozac.

Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.