My child was one of Nature's Tories pitted against a mother who was one of nurture's Lefties: it was no contest.

Anyone suffering Downton Abbey withdrawal symptoms will find an instant tonic.

In death, we are not defined by what we did or who we were but by what we meant to others. How well we loved and were loved in return.

Men worry about childcare with their wallets, women feel it in their wombs.

I forget the derivation of Boxing Day, but the feeling of wanting to invite your loved ones outside one at a time and punch them in the face, does that come into it somewhere?

God probably thinks it’s worth giving a sense of humor only to those of us who have to laugh at all the rubbish bits that are wrong with us.

When you have kids, there's a tendency to put the marriage stew on the back burner and give it a quick stir now and then. But it's important to remember why you had children with this person.

Working mothers' laughter comes hardest when our double life is revealed for what it is: a juggling act in which the balls can drop at any time, invariably on our own head.

The best musicians answer something in you when you don't even know the question.

Death itself is too big to take in, she already sees that; the loss comes at you instead in an infinite number of small installments that can never be paid off.

The software program for motherhood is impossible to fully download into the male brain. You give them two tasks and they're like, 'I have to change the baby and get the dry cleaning?'

Silence is a giver

I don't mind the term functional medicine -- I suppose it's better than dysfunctional medicine.

I wore hot pants and cowboy boots and I thought, 'What have I gotten myself into?'

We're going to have the best educated American people in the world. People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.

My goal has always been to introduce other people to running. They might accomplish something they never thought they could.

I am curious about grownups, not children.

I feel like my friends are in a cult because we're like, 'No outsiders!

It’s time for a 21st-century abolitionist movement in the U.S and around the world.

Romeo wouldn’t change his mind. That’s why people still remembered his name, always twined with hers.

...but for a soldier his duty is plain. He is to obey the orders of all those placed over him and whip the enemy wherever he meets him.