If you want to disappear, Emily, you can do it most anywhere.

Choices are easy when you have nothing to lose.

What she did have, after raising two children, was the equivalent of a PhD in mothering and my undying respect.

Rain didn't make things messy. People did that all on their own.

Wolves go after a wounded deer, it is the nature of the beast.

I had nothing to fear from my father. Except his disappointment. Which was no small thing.

You kids were all in college, and I suddenly saw that I was stuck alone with a man who, all those years later, was still wanting me to be someone I wasn't.

I can't spend the rest of my life competing for your attention and coming in last.

Tombstones don´t list jobs, they list relationships-mother, wife, daughter.

I had nothing to fear from my father.Except his disappointment.Which was no small thing.

So, is it harder to dream about what you don´t have than to live in fear of losing what you do?

Someone who thinks of possessing a fountain made of a winged baby with water shooting out of its mouth must not have too many troubles.

Insanity is the greatest gift of humanity, for insanity talks to the mind of the delusion.

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.

The world is so full of a number of things I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

God intended women to be outside as well as men, and they do not know what they are missing when they stay cooped up in the house.

Stubbornness usually is considered a negative; but I think that trait has been a positive for me.

When you cook under pressure you trade perfection.

When I hear the Spice Girls, yeah, all that '90s stuff, like Limp Bizkit. Dandy Warhols! Whenever I hear them, it takes me right back, because they were friends of the channel, too.

Many possible things were impossible before they were possible

Love of Christ does not distract us from interest in others, but rather invites us to responsibility for them, to the exclusion of no one….