Wisdom comes through suffering or old age.

You can't do anything about the past, it's done and can't be mended. But the future is different, if you just think what you really want and reach out and take it.

Suffering, once accepted, loses its edge, for the terror of it lessens, and what remains is generally far more manageable than we had imagined.

People have preconceptions about women of a certain age.

If you seek to make a well protectingly made quote, perhaps you should check your surroundings; you're possibly bound to come up with something interesting, if you simply think over the right subject. -Brandon Seedorff

Are you watching the boats?" Cornelia guessed. She craned her neck to see if there was any excitement on the river.
Heavens no, I'm spying on people," Virginia responded unrepentantly.
-Cornelia E and Virginia Somerset