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A family was only as strong as their stories.
“You’ll see how many hours a day can be eaten up by worry when you become a mother.”
No matter where she went in the world, the sea was her soul and salvation.
When you’re serious about love, you’ve got to be just as serious in your commitment to work at it.
A mother is not just a loving presence in a family who cooks and cleans up and comforts the children. She sets the example and teaches the family, including her husband, how to love.
For anything to grow in this world, you had to first love it.
“But the first thing that leaves in success is the memory of what it felt like to be poor. We shed that insecurity like an old pair of shoes the moment there’s money in the bank.
“That means you love your new country. When an immigrant loves their new country, it changes the country for the better.”
I want you to realize that this whole thing is just a grand adventure. A fine show. The trick is to play in it and look at it at the same time. . . . The more kinds of people you see, the more things you do, and the more things that happen to you, the richer you are. Even if they’re not pleasant things. That’s living . . .
The names get lost eventually, then forgotten. Great women gone and lost in our family history.
