Bessie-isms:

*Never be embarrassed to be honest about your needs, but don’t be shocked if no one is eager to give you what you need. Few are inclined to make your needs their needs, but are you any better? It is a two way street.

*Everyone’s standards of beauty change as they age. What delights you in your first blush of adulthood will not be the same thing that excites you in old age. You can’t change this fact, but you can at least understand what’s happening.

Quotable:

By identifying the new learning with heresy, you make orthodoxy synonymous with ignorance.

Desiderius Erasmus