IWOTA #12 Kathleen Norris

Kathleen Thompson Norris was born in San Francisco in 1880.

Wikipedia states: “She was one of the most widely read and highest paid female writers in the United States for nearly fifty years, from 1911 to 1959.”

For her mastery of English, I name her an Indigenous Woman Of The Anglosphere. (IWOTA)

Here’s why:

“Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.”

“In spite of the cost of living, it’s still popular.”

“Peace – that was the other name for home.”

“Like faith, marriage is a mystery. The person you’re committed to spending your life with is known and yet unknown, at the same time remarkably intimate and necessarily other. The classic seven-year itch may not be a case of familiarity breeding ennui and contempt, but the shock of having someone you thought you knew all too well suddenly seem a stranger. When that happens, you are compelled to either recommit to the relationship or get the hell out. There are many such times in a marriage.”

“I was taught that I had to ‘master’ subjects. But who can ‘master’ beauty, or peace, or joy?”

“We can’t give our children the future, strive though we may to make it secure. But we can give them the present.”

Kathleen Norris died in her son’s San Francisco home at the age of 85 in 1966.

God Bless America.

Geoff Fox, October 27, 2023, Down Under