Don’t Forget to Write

by Sara Goodman Confino

“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.”

And I didn’t understand how these men could claim to be attracted to the fact that I was free, then try to cage me.

Ada had said that social class was sometimes negotiable in making matches, but often not. And I finally understood she didn’t mean money. She meant values. Core beliefs. The way we treated others. You could be rich as Croesus and still not have class.

“Always say yes to new things,” Ada said. “It’s the only way you’ll be able to write about life—if you actually go out and live it.”

age.” I would be her age in 2015. We would have flying cars and be living on the moon by then.

The world loves to destroy what it doesn’t understand. Some things can be hidden to be protected. Some can’t.”

If I could have crawled into her skin and become her, I would have. She was fierce and ferocious and feminine all at the same time.

And more than that, live your life the way that you want to. Not the way society or anyone else tells you to. Because you only get this one chance.