Bessie-isms:

*Do you ever feel sad because you never win anything? If you wake up every day, if you aren’t being beaten or oppressed, if you or your family aren’t starving, you have won life’s lotto, the biggest one and the one that counts most!

*Never mock a child for begging, especially for love or attention. Instead, view it as a warning that you are falling down in your parenting.

Quotable:

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage and half closed afterwards.

Benjamin FRanklin