Eleanor Porter

One day it was about getting married that mother talked with me, and I said I was so glad that when you didn't like being married, or got tired of your husband, you could get Unmarried.

I had this wild imagination. I was never me. All my childhood photos, I'm in fancy dress, playing a Russian refuge or Marvelous Mad Madam Mim.

I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna.

There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because, to some degree, I projected upon it.