Gloria Whelan

"People long to go backward in their imagination as well as forward. We don't wish simply to exist forever in some future; we wish to have existed in some distant past."

"But will you not have a house to care for? Meals to cook? Children whining for this or that? Will you have time for the work" "I'll make time," I promised. "The house will not always be so clean, the cooking may be a little hasty, and the whining children will sit on my lap and I'll sing to them while I work."