It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays.
From Ethel Waters
In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live.
I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow.
I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try.
I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out.
I never was coddled, or liked, or understood by my family.
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