Before devising any blueprint that includes the assumption of Having It All, we need to ask ... Why do we need Everything?

If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?

We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.

We mothers are learning to mark our mothering success by our daughters' lengthening flight.

Boys don't make passes at female smart asses.

If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.

A toy has no gender and no idea of whether a girl or boy is playing with it.

If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles.

If knowledge is power, clandestine knowledge is power squared; it can be withheld, exchanged, and leveraged.

Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.

No labourer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love -except the housewife.

Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience.

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

His voice gave out and he made several wavy motions with his hand, indicative of the shape of a woman who would probably be unable to keep her balance.

Much unhappiness results from our inability to remember the nice things that happen to us.

Within our family there was no such thing as a person who did not matter. Second cousins thrice removed mattered.

We have to listen to other people's stories. That's the thing. And that's the only way that we eventually get to know ourselves.

A man is in no danger so long as he talks his love; but to write it is to impale himself on his own pothooks.

I occasionally got called the Rush Limbaugh of Indiana, but most people knew that my style was different.

The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.