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

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.

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

I used to anticipate my childhood birthday parties as if each were an annual coronation. Like most kids, I loved sitting at the head of the table with a crown on my head.

It's hard to save the world when you can't save yourself

Cause I lit him on fire,” I shrugged and brushed dust from my pants.

I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.

Proust had his madeleines; I am devastated by the scent of yeast bread rising.

Climb up the ladder! Climb up the ladder! Are you stupid?!

One usually thinks people to be more dangerous than they are.

I actually play sports better when I'm mad. Some players don't play better when they're mad. They lose their sense of where they're at. I have a tendency to do better when I'm under pressure.

I used to be a lot more afraid of climate change. Now I spend my time working, planning, trying to move forward.

The truth is like a scalpel. The truth is painful.

Man's eternal question is:'Who is God?'God's immediate answer is:'My child, who else is God, if not you?