Eighty's a landmark and people treat you differently than they do when you're seventy-nine. At seventy-nine, if you drop something it just lies there. At eighty, people pick it up for you. — Helen Van Slyke Copy Share Image
Isn't it boring ... how people always want to tell you their own stories instead of listening to yours? I suppose that's why psychiatrists… — Helen Van Slyke Copy Share Image
Emotion seemed more valid than experience, for I had so much of the former and so little of the latter. — Helen Van Slyke Copy Share Image
Mail from home was so important when you were traveling. It kept you in touch with the familiar, even the part you were running… — Helen Van Slyke Copy Share Image
I should coldly, clinically think of myself and stop worrying about other people, as though I'm a necessary woman, indispensable to their happiness and… — Helen Van Slyke Copy Share Image
People who let the weak or greedy drink their blood sometimes have a need to play God. — Helen Van Slyke Copy Share Image
When you get to be my age, all your friends have either died or moved to Florida. — Helen Van Slyke Copy Share Image
Vanity, wounded pride, rejection, self-delusion. I could recite a litany of little pinpricks that finally produce a gaping wound. That's how marriages and friendships… — Helen Van Slyke Copy Share Image
Living would be a terribly pedestrian business without the impatient ones. The seekers. Always searching for something new, something relevant to leave their mark… — Helen Van Slyke Copy Share Image
Never doubt love ... Never question it when it comes onstage, but be happy for its entrance. And do not weep when it makes… — Helen Van Slyke Copy Share Image
If arrogance is the heady wine of youth, then humility must be its eternal hangover. — Helen Van Slyke Copy Share Image
