Virgilia Peterson Quotes (10 Quotes)

In Reno Nevada, there is always a bull market, never a bear market for the stocks and bonds of happiness.

Were marriage no more than a convenient screen for sexuality, some less cumbersome and costly protection must have been found by this time to replace it. One concludes therefore that people do not marry to cohabit they cohabit to marry.

Perhaps it is the expediency in the political eye that blinds it.

I can understand that memory must be selective, else it would choke on the glut of experience. What I cannot understand is why it selects what it does.

Not only are there as many conflicting truths as there are people to claim them there are equally multitudinous and conflicting truths within the individual.

Words have their genealogy, their history, their economy, their literature, their art and music, as too they have their weddings and divorces, their successes and defeats, their fevers, their undiagnosable ailments, their sudden deaths.

However often marriage is dissolved, it remains indissoluble. Real divorce, the divorce of heart and nerve and fiber, does not exist, since there is no divorce from memory.

Love by its presence, like God by His, makes everything not necessarily clear or right or even good, but acceptable. Whereas in its absence, as in His, there is no hope.

There is no plummet to sound another's soul.

A lady, that is an enlightened, cultivated, liberal lady,... could espouse any cause wayward girls, social diseases, unmarried mothers, andor birth control with impunity. But never... should she acknowledge her own experience with the Facts of Life.