My Great Aunt had raised nine children on a farm; fed them and the farmhands; done all her own housework and helped with the outdoor chores. And she had never been ill in her life. Finally her family doctor asked her the secret. “I constantly see young women,” he said, “who have only one or two children and whose homes are full of gadgets to lighten work, but who suffer from nervous exhaustion or psychosomatic aches and pains. How is it that you managed never to have a nervous breakdown?”
“You know, Doctor,” she replied, “I’ve always wanted to have a nervous breakdown. But every time I was about to get around to it, it was time to fix somebody a meal.”
-Beach Conger
