God Knows That A Mother Needs Fortitude And Courage And Tolerance And
Flexibility And Patience And Firmness And Nearly Every Other Brave Aspect
Of The Human Soul.
God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and
flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect
of the human soul. But because I happen to be a parent of almost fiercely
maternal nature, I praise casualness. It seems to me the rarest of virtues.
It is useful enough when children are small. It is important to the point
of necessity when they are adolescents.
-- Phyllis McGinley
