Kathleen Norris

Changing husbands is only changing troubles.

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Life is easier to take than you think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.

There are men I could spend eternity with. but not this life.

When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?