Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.

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.

If I am more alive because love burns and chars me, as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation, it's that he who lays me low is my salvation, and invigorates the more, the more he scars me.

who knows you better than your own brother?

Bigotry has always been the poison of America, and we oughta do everything to eradicate it with no excuses or explanations.

Paralympics... fascinating because just watching anyone with a major disability trying to do everyday chores is fun to watch.

Everything about a movie is manipulation.

Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.

Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.

I want to go outside and play.

Just as Parkinson's isn't a big topic of conversation in my house, neither is my career.

The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution.