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Freedom Makes A Huge Requirement Of Every Human Being. With Freedom Comes Responsibility. For The Person Who Is Unwilling To Grow Up, The Person Who Does Not Want To Carry Is Own Weight, This Is A Frightening Prospect.

To Me Who Dreamed So Much As A Child, Who Made A Dreamworld In Which I Was The Heroine Of An Unending Story, The Lives Of People Around Me Continued To Have A Certain Storybook Quality. I Learned Something Which Has Stood Me In Good Stead Many Times - The Most Important Thing In Any Relationship Is Not What You Get But What You Give.

I Have Learned Long Ago To Possess My Soul In Patience And Accept The Inevitable.

I Was Perfectly Certain That I Had Nothing To Offer Of An Individual Nature And That My Only Chance Of Doing My Duty As The Wife Of A Public Official Was To Do Exactly As The Majority Of Women Were Doing.

The Bible Illustrated By Dore Occupied Many Of My Hours - And I Think Probably Gave Me Many Nightmares.