By the time a child reaches out to an adult, the vast majority of kids have been dealing with the bullying and trying to ignore it for a long time.

I’m sorry that people are so jealous of me [Gretchen Wieners], but I can’t help it that I’m popular.

Sometimes bullies are your friends and very rarely do bullying prevention tips acknowledge this fact or what to do about it.

As a teacher myself I've been in situations where parents come at you, and sometimes parents come across like the teacher doesn't want the best for their kid and it can be really, really hurtful.

Communicating a passionate response to world events is no longer limited to protests and rallies.

Nobody ever talks about the mean things that girls do to each other.

Being a parent does not give you an excuse for bad manners.

As an expert, I can deal with complex problems. As a mother it is much, much harder.

In my own family, my mother had my sister when I was 15 and for various reasons, I was extremely involved in raising her.

Boys and boys' body image and clothes have become just as important an issue for boys as for girls.

Kids don't like being put into boxes, and your kid can act in different ways in different situations.

Life dies but forever will there be music. Always.

I would like to see us shake-in, instead of a shakeout, in the sense that it's true that there's a lot of junk online, and we have to filter it and so forth.

The disease and its medicine are like two factions in a besieged town; they tear one another to pieces, but both unite against their common enemy, Nature.

Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions.

I am sure antidepressants, drugs, and liquor have their place. But so far, that place is in others, not me.

I would really love to go to Thailand as so many people have told me how wonderful it is.

Love is like a war; easy to start but hard to end and you never know where it might take you.

And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.

I always look ahead, to the side, but never back.