It's a good thing babies don't give you a lot of time to think. You fall in love with them and when you realize how much they love you back, life is very simple.

Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.

The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.

I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.

Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers?

The painful things seemed like knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary for keeping the beads in place.

The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.

One of his tears fell in my mouth, where it became a blue sapphire, source of strength, source of strength and eternal hope.

I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love.

My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.

One of my great secrets was knowing I had the power to make her smile.

Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.

Life's too awesome to waste your time thinking about someone who doesn't treat you right.

Just when you think you know.....you don't know.

Capitalism invariably boils down to barter between two willing parties, neither of whom uses force to work with the other.

I just don't like to lose what's in the window.

When you fall ill, people send you CDs. Very often, in my experience, these are by Leonard Cohen

I've been getting into different gospel artists; Aretha Franklin is someone I've been listening to a lot of.

It's not that I'm confident, but I feel it's okay for me to continue taking photos.

We are the ones looking out for the middle class. Who do think pays for the endless expansion of government? Its middle class taxpayers. Our reforms protect middle class taxpayers.

If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway.