The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope.
My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the '40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.
This is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism.