Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.

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.

If you love me as you say you do, make it so that I am at peace.

I fell for her like a suicide from a bridge.

Love is the spirituality of the soul.

Those who think of their house as only a ‘machine to live in’ should judge their point of view by that Neolithic man, who also lived in a house, but a house that embodied a cosmology.

an old woman ... is a person who has no sense of decency; if once she takes to living, the devil himself can't get rid of her.

There's degradation of the environment. But the real issue is the degradation of one's inner environment.

Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.

I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll.

My parents are great listeners Which is why I never tell them anything