I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.

I know that I've been guided by God. I am obedient.

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.

I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I'm a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself - all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.

I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.

When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich.