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

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.

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.

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.

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

Unity is the intentional inclination to corporately control our destination. In other words, achieving the dream takes a team!

If you want to win, do the ordinary things better than anyone else does them day in and day out.

Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.

I was honored to spend time with the President on an issue that is clearly important to him. I was also impressed by his wide receiver skills.

In recent years - before the intifada - there were three or four incidents of anti-Semitism a year, and that's out of 18 million crimes and violations of the law.

I was never very mature in my relationships with women. First sign of conflict, I was gone.

As a director I always look at someone's eyes. How truthful are they? Will this person take me on this journey?

I still love sparkles and grocery shopping and really old cats that are only nice to you half the time. I still love writing in my journal and wearing dresses all the time and staring at chandeliers.

I think the environmental impact of this disaster is likely to have been very, very modest.