I Was Then At The Height Of

But You Know, Where Did The Brontes Go To College? Where Did George Eliot Go To College? Where Did Thomas Paine Or Thomas Jefferson Or George Washington Go? Did George Washington Go To College? This Idea Which We Now Have That People Ought To Have These Credentials Is Really Ridiculous. Where Did Homer Go To College?

My Disappointments Stand Up And Grow Ever Taller. They Will Not Be Lost To Me.

I Had Been A Girl Of Whom Certain Things Were Expected, None Of Them Too Bad: A Career As A Nurse, For Example; A Sense Of Duty To My Parents; Obedience To The Law And Worship Of Convention. But In One Year Of Being Away From Home, That Girl Had Gone Out Of Existence.

I Read About Writers Who Have Routines. They Write At Certain Times Of The Day. I Can't Do That. I Am Always Writing-but In My Head.

Gardening Is Really An Extended Form Of Reading, Of History And Philosophy. The Garden Itself Has Become Like Writing A Book. I Walk Around And Walk Around. Apparently People Often See Me Standing There And They Wave To Me And I Don't See Them Because I Am Reading The Landscape.