Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I’ve not seen. - James Thurber

Somebody has said that woman's place is in the wrong. That's fine. What the wrong needs is a woman's presence and a woman's touch. She is far better equipped than men to set it right.

"My mother, for instance, thought-or rather, knew-that it was dangerous to drive an automobile without gasoline: it fried the valves, or something. 'Now don't you dare drive all over town without gasoline!' she would say to us when we started off" (31).

It is all but impossible to sit quietly by when someone is throwing salad plates.