I feel about mothers the way I feel about dimples: because I do not have one myself, I notice everyone who does.

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.

You are a prisoner of your thoughts. Expand your thoughts and get out of the prison.

A self-limiting belief is no stronger than the flimsy rope that tethers an elephant by its foot.

She burst into her hotel room pulling her blouse over her head with one hand while she yanked her shoes off with the other. No way was she going to face an alien invasion in heels and silk.

For the most part people went about their business with an entirely irresponsible confidence in the stability of the universe.

Wiggy & I were drug buddies. There is no tighter compact for friendship. There is no greater potential for deceit.

I always see the glass as half full and prefer to look on the bright side of life.

Truth comes to us from the past, then, like gold washed down from the mountains.

Human beings are no longer born to their place in life...but are free to employ their faculties and such favorable chances as offer, to achieve the lot which may appear to them as desirable.

No matter how successful a relationship may be, both sexually and emotionally, the lack of money can hamper and undermine, little by little, even the greatest passion.

One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.