Quotes from baum vicki ii

When we are young, our parents run our life, when we get older, our children do.

Cats will be clean in a pigsty while pigs will be dirty in a marble hall.

It was the woman who first began to grope for the mysteries of the other's soul. She took his head in her hands and held it as though it were a large and heavy fruit, gathered in the sun.

I was growing tired of all the fussing and prevaricating, of the stolen hours and the secret rendez-vous; of the small indignities and broad discomfort that are part and parcel of adultery.

To me, writing is not a profession. You might as well call living a profession. Or having children. Anything you can't help doing.

People don't speak of hunger when they know what it is to be hungry.

A woman who is loved always has success.