Phyllis Theroux Quotes
Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.
Theroux, Phyllis. Night Lights: Bedtime Stories for Parents in the Dark. Viking, 1987, p. 109.
"Winters" is used in both a literal and metaphorical sense. The wise man must be old enough to have garnered the wisdom and he must have lived through some difficult times.
Phyllis Grissim-Theroux is an essayist, columnist, teacher and author. A contributing essayist on the "Newshour with Jim Lehrer" from 1992 - 1996, Theroux's columns, op-ed pieces, reviews and feature stories have appeared in various newspapers including The New York Times, Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, and International Herald Tribune. In the l980's, she was a monthly columnist for Parents Magazine. In the l990's she wrote a monthly column for House Beautiful.