Now and adult, allowed a glimpse of these first cracks in my family's perfect surface, I couldn't help but wonder what else I didn't understand about us all.p 60

Would my son love me, when he was old enough to know what love meant?p 181

It isn'y explanations that carry us forward, it's our desire to go on.

The best way to achieve surprise quality is by avoiding cliches.

... the main principle by which human beings must guide the future course of their development is love.

An individual's ability to draw is... the ability to shift to a different-from-ordinary way of processing visual information - to shift from verbal, analytic processing to spatial, global processing.

Feminism is built on believing women's accounts of sexual use and abuse by men.

To be adult in relationship is not to be conflict-free, it's to resolve conflicts mindfully.

There's nothing more vulnerable than just standing in front of a thousand people, or ten thousand people, and doing your best to entertain them, touch them in some way.

Victory does not feel so good as losing feels bad. When you have a son, you are happy. But it's no comparison to the sadness you feel losing a son.

My job makes me travel a lot and too often I'm away from my children, but I don't ever stop being a mom inside my head and my heart. There is no higher love than that.