For a majority of women it remains difficult to reconcile increasingly burdensome maternal responsibilities with personal fulfillment.

Childless people are always expected to explain themselves, although it would never occur to anyone to ask a woman why she became a mother (and to insist on getting good reasons)

Motherhood is still the great unknown. For some, it brings incomparable happiness and enriches their identity. Others manage as best they can to reconcile contradictory demands.

Mothers with high ideals for child-rearing must pay the price for those ideals.

The whole universe is like some big FedEx box.

Of what earthly use were novels? How did they help anybody?

Our language one of our most precious natural resources deserves at least as much protection as our woodlands streams and whooping cranes.

If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing.

Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.

You cannot transform the society of people if the people are not part of the change.

The golden rule of friendship is to listne to others as you would have them listen to you.

You can stroke people with words.

Investing in yourself is the best investment you will ever make. It will not only improve your life, it will improve the lives of all those around you.

All I am is smoke and mirrors.