Daddy’s too wrung out to help Billie Jo much, and there’s no one else to care. So Billie Joe must head herself - even if it means tearing up her roots, and leaving behind everything she’s ever known.
“If you really want to be great at something, you have to truly care about it. If you want to be great in a particular area, you have to obsess over it.”
“There was a Young Lady whose bonnet
Came untied when birds sate upon it;
But she said, ‘I don’t care! all the birds in the air
Are welcome to sit on my bonnet.’ ”
“There’s a responsibility we have toward animals. We use them. We shut them up, keep their natural food and water away from them; that means we have to feed and water them. Take away their freedom away, rope them, harness them, that means we have to supply a different sort of safety for them. Once I’ve put a rope on a horse, or taken away its ability to take care of itself, then I’ve got to take care of it.”