It's because we live in a beauty-obsessed society where the most important thing a woman can do is make herself attractive to men.

She felt hot liquid anger suddenly cool and harden into something powerful and immovable.

When someone you loved was depending on your lie, it was perfectly easy.

When you divorce someone, you divorce their whole family, Madeline had told her once.

All conflict can be traced back to someone’s feelings getting hurt, don’t you think?

Mothers took their mothering so seriously now. Their frantic little faces...Ponytails swinging. Eyes fixed on the mobile phones held in the palms of their hands like compasses.

One of the greatest gifts from God is the eternal perspective. It is a level of fearlessness, a level of understanding where one can experience even emotional harmony with God.

If a deadly snake slithering around in a pre-school bit a child, would you box it up for a month as punishment, and then release it to prey upon the children once again?

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms.

The bags that teachers carry home symbolize their guilt about the endless care they have to give.

I enjoy real people, down-to-earth people who are true to themselves and honest to your face - good or bad.

Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it

I don't listen to the contemporary pop artists. They all sound alike, anyway.

I deal with certain things in my work because of who I am. I make work in order to make people think.

When my children were born, I made the choice I wanted them to be raised as Jews and to have a Jewish education.

I used to say that if you gave me a trillion dollars to build a sentient or conscious machine I would give it back. I could not honestly say I knew how it works.