One of the earliest religious disappointments in a young girl's life devolves upon her unanswered prayer for a horse.

- Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere, without moving anything but your heart.

- Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

Rearing three children is like growing a cactus, a gardenia, and a tubful of impatiens. Each needs varying amounts of water, sunlight and pruning. We…

- Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

If there is any reason to single out artists as being more necessary to our lives than any others, it is because they provide us with light that cann…

- Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

An enlightened person raises the level of the consciousness of the entire community.

- Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.

- Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

A party is a slightly artificial event where one learns the rudiments of human behavior at its most admirable: speaking when spoken to, looking someb…

- Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

- Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

one of my earliest joys as a parent lay in knowing that at the end of the day I had once again ushered three babies back to their beds, against the o…

- Phyllis Grissim-Theroux