A Woman of Independent Means

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

Top 10 Best Quotes

“Sometimes being a good mother gets in the way of being a good person.”

“Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.”

“Life causes estrangement enough—why do we add to it out of misplaced pride?”

“I know now one must plan one’s old age as surely as one plans any other stage of life. The tragedy of Cousin Josie’s life is that she never knew what she wanted at any age—only what she did not want. She never wanted to marry nor to pursue a career, and in life, unlike grammar, double negatives do not produce an affirmative.”

“Would that we could soar forever beyond the reach of earth, away from the dangers that await us the moment we alight.”

“It is ironic that the very ties that bind a husband and wife in theory- home and family- often serve to separate them in fact.”

“I find myself in the unusual position of accepting an invitation before it has been extended.”

“How much of what passes for grief in the world is really nothing more than regret?”

“How arrogant we are to think the survival of any life that begins in our shadow depends upon our continuing physical presence. Indeed our shadow too often stands between the new life we create- in whatever form- and the sun's life-giving rays.”

“Her husband was sent to boarding school at an early age and though deprived of his family's presence, their name was always ahead of him, opening every door.”

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