Don’t Forget to Write

by Sara Goodman Confino

Was she actually the kind of woman who would make her niece sit in the backseat so a man of a different race could ride in the front? Or was she putting me in my place?

WTF… for 2 seconds I forgot the setting is the 60s 😂😂😂

Yes, I wanted love and passion and excitement. But the idea of being my own person—of doing what I wanted when I wanted and bossing everyone else around—was intoxicating. More than that though, when Ada spoke, everyone listened.

A summer of torture was better than a lifetime of mediocre marriage.

I know that’s right 😂

“There are only three certainties in this world, Marilyn. Death, taxes, and Jewish mothers wanting to marry their children off.”

I certainly hope people are willing to overlook the fact that Kennedy is Catholic. It would be nice to have someone who doesn’t look like a constipated Howdy Doody running the country. And that wife of his is pure class.”

“You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. And don’t ever let anyone tell you we’re the weaker sex.”

Mothers should live forever.

We can only teach them to fish. We can’t also teach them to cook, chew, and swallow.”

“Don’t say uh. It makes you sound uncertain. Speak with assurance and people will treat you as intelligent.”

She wasn’t warm and she suffered no fools. But no one had a better heart than this indomitable battle-ax before me.