My mother practiced hours every day, hours as painful to hear as to play. At first everybody thought she would give in. Day followed day, and the terrible stumbling sounds went on for hours on end. She did not know what else to do.
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HELEN ROWLAND When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living. HELEN ROWLAND After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without l... HELEN ROWLAND Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after... HELEN ROWLAND Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty. HELEN ROWLAND Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an ana... HELEN ROWLAND When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the i... HELEN ROWLAND No girl who is going to marry need bother to win a college degree; she just naturally becomes a Mast... HELEN ROWLAND Today, most women are surrounded by ingenious gadgets. They don't grow the peas or raise the chi... HELEN FISHER I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because... HELEN KELLER A child must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with ... HELEN KELLER When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets t... HELEN ROWLAND Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through se... HELEN KELLER Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the childr... HELEN KELLER I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light. HELEN KELLER Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. HELEN KELLER The best way out is always through. HELEN KELLER Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -... HELEN KELLER Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know.... HELEN KELLER Change has to come for life to struggle forward. HELEN HOLLICK Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. HELEN KELLER When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that ... HELEN KELLER It is a truth universally acknowledged that when one part of your life starts going okay, another fa... HELEN FIELDING The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision. HELEN KELLER The most pathetic person in the world is some one who has sight but no vision. HELEN KELLER I’m never sad when a friend goes far away, because whichever city or country that friend goes to, ... HELEN OYEYEMI A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever. HELEN ROWLAND The tenderest spot in a man's make-up is sometimes the bald spot on top of his head. HELEN ROWLAND There's so much saint in the worst of them, and so much devil in the best of them, that a woman who'... HELEN ROWLAND There are only two kinds of men; the dead and the deadly. HELEN ROWLAND Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever. HELEN ROWLAND Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture. HELEN ROWLAND