“Look at all the marriages that have been wonderfully successful where ...” — Marta Kristen Quote

“Look at all the marriages that have been wonderfully successful where fellows finished their army service and came home to go to college on G.I. bills and their wives worked.”

“I guess I'm a born ham.”

“I'm a teen-age bride.”

“It was only after five years in the army, when I was having to do a very boring job in a very boring place, that I thought: 'Why not try writing a novel?' partly out of youthful arrogance and partly because there had been a long line of writers in my mother's family.”

“Before they deploy, they train for the specific operations, but there is a danger that the Army is not retaining the core of its full capabilities.”

“One of the few benefits of being a journalist is that you're not in the Army.”