Your mother calls and says she hasn't seen you for a long time. The first year: You invite her for a week. You give her your room, and you both sleep on the lumpy studio couch. The fifth year: Your… — Lois Wyse Copy Share Image
Always hire people who are better than you. Hiring dummies is shortsighted. You can't move up the ladder until everyone is comfortable with your… — Lois Wyse Copy Share
A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the… — Lois Wyse Copy Share
For all of us, whether we walk old paths or blaze new trails, friends remain important. — Lois Wyse Copy Share
... letters freeze time for us, eternalizing shared experiences so we can go back and draw strength from them. Letters are like deposits in… — Lois Wyse Copy Share
It was only long after the ceremony that we learned why we got married in the first place. — Lois Wyse Copy Share
I thought about all of us women and how we spend half our lives rebelling against our mothers and the next half rebelling against… — Lois Wyse Copy Share
Don't ever take advice from anyone who starts a sentence with, 'You may not like me for this, but it's for your own good… — Lois Wyse Copy Share
Didn't we, like our grandchildren, begin with a childhood we thought would never end? Now, all of a sudden, I'm older than my parents… — Lois Wyse Copy Share
Grandmothers are to life what the Ph.D. is to education. There is nothing you can feel, taste, expect, predict, or want that the grandmothers… — Lois Wyse Copy Share
... in this impersonal world of the nine-digit zip code, credit cards, and numbered bank accounts, in this world of no marriage, late marriage,… — Lois Wyse Copy Share
