Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.

From fairest creatures we desire increase,
That thereby beauty’s rose might never die.

Hail wedded love, mysterious law, true source
Of human offspring.

Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it well? My mother.