Bette Howland

“Sanity is a matter of circumstance.”

“You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”

“It's no good choosing what you want to be. You have to be what you are.”

“Madness is a waste of time.”

“What you have to do is work with the raw material you have, which is your life.”

“We are all of us in this world, and some of us are more in it than others.”

“There is a point when you have to give up your pride and your theories and your values and just go on living.”

“The family is a school of values, not a court of law.”

“The past is not a package you can lay away.”

“We don't choose our obsessions; they choose us.”

“It is the function of the library to keep memory alive.”

“You don't have to justify your existence. You just have to exist.”