America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.

If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?

We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.

We mothers are learning to mark our mothering success by our daughters' lengthening flight.

Boys don't make passes at female smart asses.

If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.

A toy has no gender and no idea of whether a girl or boy is playing with it.

If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles.

If knowledge is power, clandestine knowledge is power squared; it can be withheld, exchanged, and leveraged.

Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.

No labourer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love -except the housewife.

Feminism is a movement for change, not a changing of the guard.

He turned around and I felt the shards of my broken heart crumble to dust.

Each new day on earth is a sacred moment.

Of course fortune has its part in human affairs but conduct is really much more important.

I used to fear living a life untouched by God, but now, for some reason I've gone back to being afraid of cement mixers.

When were we the most egalitarian country in the world? When we had the Glass/Steagal Act, which prevented the banks from becoming the criminal operations that they've become.

When I walk through an airport and people go, 'You're not fat!' I'm like, 'Thanks. That's great. Good to know I'm not fat today! Thank you!'

Forgiving's a choice you make—a gift you give to somebody even if they don't deserve it. It costs nothing, but it makes you feel rich for giving it away.

I think theres a little bit of sizzling here. Honestly, I can feel it. The ions are flying back and forth.

I believe the best social program is a job.