Regrets are as personal as fingerprints.

- Margaret Culkin Banning

I don't believe that it's true that the poor will always be with us. I think that kind of pious fatalism is just an excuse for keeping things the way…

- Margaret Culkin Banning

I get a little angry about this highhanded scrapping of the look of things. What else have we to go by? How else can the average person form an opini…

- Margaret Culkin Banning

She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along.

- Margaret Culkin Banning

Regrets are as personal as fingerprints. Discarding what is vain or false, facing the facts that should truly disturb your conscience, is worth whate…

- Margaret Culkin Banning

Cleaning up with children around is like shoveling during a blizzard

- Margaret Culkin Banning

What does one save for, anyhow? For a few tired hours at the end of life when one sits and counts dollars? Or do we save so that those last years wil…

- Margaret Culkin Banning

Sentences that begin with "all women" are never, never true.

- Margaret Culkin Banning

Fiction is not a dream. Nor is it guesswork. It is imagining based on facts, and the facts must be accurate or the work of imagining will not stand u…

- Margaret Culkin Banning