She is the glorious reincarnation of every woman ever loved.

Just because love don't look the way you think it should, don't mean you don't have it.

Children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people.

To my mother, I was everything. To my father, nothing at all. To my grandmother, I was a daily reminder of loves long lost.

Love makes us such fools.

She laughed for her wasted, difficult life that never had to be wasted or difficult in the first place.

children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people

The days she was finally brought out of the house would later be remembered as a day when shadows seemed blacker, as if something more lingered in those darkened spaces.

She didn't see it because when it came to love, she saw what she wanted to see.

The whole world had given up on love anyway and clung instead to its malformed cousins: lust, narcissism, self-interest.

Because I'm your mother, that's why.

Boundaries represent awareness, knowing what the limits are and then respecting those limits.

Insofar as men gain time, ease, independence, or liberty from women's domestic labors, they lack incentive to change.

You have to know how to score.

I don't play the tuba. The tuba plays me. My tuba is not actually a tuba, because it has never produced a musical sound. It is actually a giant frog pretending to be a tuba.

There are billions of people on the earth and there are billions of earths, billions of universes. It is endless.

After rehearsals or a performance, you're wired and tired and it takes a while to calm down.

I'm not ready to get married, but I have a pretty great family and I'd like that too, someday.

Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream.

One makes whatever revolution one can, each in their own way.

Under government ownership corruption can flourish just as rankly as under private ownership.