Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.

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.

«No es que yo sea bueno, es que los demás son tan malos que la comparación se revela imposible.»

The worldly life means a factory of pain and pleasure.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

There's nothing greater than a girl.... Well a kid, your daughter, but that's a girl too.

Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself.

Alexander created cities everywhere he passed: I have left dreams everywhere I have trailed my life.

When it comes to me, I know what I can do and can't do.

We are not naïve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job.

He who would tell divers tales must know how to vary the tune.

Some people only work to recorded music because it's so reliable and exactly the same every time, which is exactly why I don't.