“In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?”
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It is very east to forgive others their mistakes it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
Teaching is the royal road to learning.
