Grief Is The Price We Pay For

There Are Long Periods When Life Seems A Small, Dull Round, A Petty Business With No Point, And Then Suddenly We Are Caught Up In Some Great Event Which Gives Us A Glimpse Of The Solid And Durable Foundations Of Our Existence.

[on Being Criticized For Her Serious Expression:] I Simply Ache From Smiling. Why Are Women Expected To Beam All The Time? It's Unfair. If A Man Looks Solemn, It's Automatically Assumed He's A Serious Person, Not A Miserable One.

It Is As Queen Of Canada That I Am Here. Queen Of Canada And All Canadians, Not Just One Or Two Ancestral Strains.

These Wretched Babies Don't Come Until They Are Ready.

I Should Like To Be A Horse.