Cristi Carpenter

“I am going to make everything around me beautiful - that will be my life.”
― Elsie de Wolfe

“Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.”
― Bill Ayers

“I was not ugly. I might never be anything for men to lose their heads about, but I need never again be ugly. This knowledge was like a song within me. Suddenly it all came together. If you were healthy, fit, and well-dressed, you could be attractive.”
― Elsie de Wolfe

“What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.”
― Hans Urs von Balthasar, Prayer