What does one save for, anyhow? For a few tired hours at the end of life when one sits and counts dollars? Or do we save so that those last years will not be mentally barren or esthetically shabby? I… — Margaret Culkin Banning Copy Share
I get a little angry about this highhanded scrapping of the look of things. What else have we to go by? How else can… — Margaret Culkin Banning Copy Share Image
It isn't easy to be the person who sometimes has to try to preserve your happiness at the expense of your fun. — Margaret Culkin Banning Copy Share Image
She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along. — Margaret Culkin Banning Copy Share Image
You wouldn't be caught wearing cheap perfume, would you? Then why do you want to wear cheap perfume in your conduct? — Margaret Culkin Banning Copy Share Image
What does one save for, anyhow? For a few tired hours at the end of life when one sits and counts dollars? Or do we save so that those last years will not be mentally barren or esthetically shabby? I try to save a few things to furnish my mind decently, on the theory that no auctioneer can get in… — Margaret Culkin Banning Copy Share
Cleaning up with children around is like shoveling during a blizzard — Margaret Culkin Banning Copy Share Image
Regrets are as personal as fingerprints. Discarding what is vain or false, facing the facts that should truly disturb your conscience, is worth whatever… — Margaret Culkin Banning Copy Share Image
I don't believe that it's true that the poor will always be with us. I think that kind of pious fatalism is just an… — Margaret Culkin Banning Copy Share Image
Fiction is not a dream. Nor is it guesswork. It is imagining based on facts, and the facts must be accurate or the work… — Margaret Culkin Banning Copy Share Image
Sentences that begin with "all women" are never, never true. — Margaret Culkin Banning Copy Share Image
