For centuries, the question of men needing to comprehend women simply didn't arise. Men were valued according to how they measured up to the manly virtues.

Anyone suffering Downton Abbey withdrawal symptoms will find an instant tonic.

In death, we are not defined by what we did or who we were but by what we meant to others. How well we loved and were loved in return.

Men worry about childcare with their wallets, women feel it in their wombs.

I forget the derivation of Boxing Day, but the feeling of wanting to invite your loved ones outside one at a time and punch them in the face, does that come into it somewhere?

God probably thinks it’s worth giving a sense of humor only to those of us who have to laugh at all the rubbish bits that are wrong with us.

When you have kids, there's a tendency to put the marriage stew on the back burner and give it a quick stir now and then. But it's important to remember why you had children with this person.

Working mothers' laughter comes hardest when our double life is revealed for what it is: a juggling act in which the balls can drop at any time, invariably on our own head.

The best musicians answer something in you when you don't even know the question.

Death itself is too big to take in, she already sees that; the loss comes at you instead in an infinite number of small installments that can never be paid off.

The software program for motherhood is impossible to fully download into the male brain. You give them two tasks and they're like, 'I have to change the baby and get the dry cleaning?'

oh my soul...be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions

Maybe you should say goodbye, Cal.''No.''It might be important.''It might make her die.

I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

Politeness costs little and yields much.

Passion is taking such a bite out of life that when the juices run down your face, everyone licks their lips!

I love reading about the sea. I love reading about it a lot more than actually being on the sea, when you think about it.

We must not sit down and wait for miracles. Up and be going!

The good thing about directing yourself is that you get over yourself.

We shall have to evolve problem-solvers galore since each problem they solve creates ten problems more.

I made her the queen of my double wide trailer with the polyester curtains and redwood deck.