sharing is the secret of civilization.

- Josephine Humphreys

People Should not be protected from the world.. -It cripples them.

- Josephine Humphreys

You must be the greatest mother in the world, but you must also, simultaneously, withdraw from your children's lives. You don't want to be the major …

- Josephine Humphreys

People do sometimes change, of course. Habits, allegiances, dreams are all alterable, but only under extraordinary pressure - like great love, fear, …

- Josephine Humphreys

But the moods could be contagious. He didn't need one right now.

- Josephine Humphreys

You can't drown yourself that simply. All good suicides involve speed and irreversibility, because the body will always move to protect itself agains…

- Josephine Humphreys

I read Butterfly’s Child in one day, totally hooked. It is a captivating novel of love, guilt, sin, justice—and how all these things are, in time, tr…

- Josephine Humphreys

Like most good looking women, she was never sure of her beauty, and had to keep checking on it, to make sure it was still there.

- Josephine Humphreys

How I Shed My Skin is, simply put, a brilliant book. While I was reading, I kept thinking two things. One, this is totally shocking. Two, it's not at…

- Josephine Humphreys