One life stamps and influences another, which in turn stamps and influences another, on and on, until the soul of human experience breathes on in generations we'll never meet.

A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium.

Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass.

Mother is the first word that occurs to politicians and columnists and popes when they raise the question, 'Why isn't life turning out the way we want it?

When trouble comes no mother should have to plead guilty alone. The pediatricians, psychologists, therapists, goat herders, fathers, and peer groups should all be called to the bench as well. . . .

Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary by pass. After such a monumental assault on the heart, it takes years to amend all the habits and attitudes that led up to it.

It's an old trick now, God knows, but it works every time. At the very moment women start to expand their place in the world, scientific studies deliver compelling reasons for them to stay home.

Women aren't trying to do too much. Women have too much to do.

Families don't always realize that mother is exhausted, because mother is always exhausted. Exhausted is what looks normal.

A mother can legitimately be said to 'have a baby' - but in a civilization such as ours, she can never claim to own a teenager.

If a woman is to know herself, then periods of solitude should be courted, planned, and embraced.

Writers will often find themselves steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion.

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.

Is it really that important? It's just television, for God's sake. It's not medicine or something.

Were there no hearers, there would be no backbiters.

I never got married anyway, because I wasn't particularly keen on accepting the responsibility of another person.

Remember, the Islamist view of democracy is: one man, one vote, one election, and that's it.

I sighed. "What is life but fleeting moments of happiness strung together on necklace of despair?

Poke gave him life. Ender gave it meaning.

I've never seen impeccable logic be sufficient to win both the heart and the mind.

The crisis that we inherit when we come to power will be the occasion for fundamental change and not the excuse for postponing it