Kathleen Norris

Kathleen Thompson Norris (July 16, 1880, San Francisco, California - January 18, 1966, Palo Alto, California) was an American novelist and wife of fellow writer Charles Norris, whom she wed in 1909

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Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.
Changing husbands is only changing troubles.
Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.
If we are lucky, we can give in and rest without feeling guilty. We can stop doing and concentrate on being.
In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
Life is easier to take than you think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.
None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives.
There are men I could spend eternity with. but not this life.
When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?

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