People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.

She had a long dispute with her daughter Judith over the estate of Judith's father Marcus; in 1979 Judith committed suicide. Mixed into this dialogue are old tales stories of a lost continent and of other worlds and theological speculations. ” - A Prologue to Love
"The American insanity for Loving Everybody is ruining my good temper and delivering my stomach to enormous bouts with acidity.

In her fiction Taylor Caldwell often used real historical events or persons. Her last major novel Answer as a Man appeared in 1980.