I have two daughters and I have done everything in my power to prevent them from assimilating, even being aware of, my idiocy about my weight.

If you focus all of your emotional passion on your children and you neglect the relationship that brought that family into existence... eventually, things can go really, really wrong.

Courage is impulsive; it is narcissism tempered with nihilism.

One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing our children and falling far short of our own ideals.

If a good mother is one who loves her child more than anyone else in the world, I am not a good mother. I am in fact a bad mother. I love my husband more than I love my children.

Roaring like a tiger turns some children into pianists who debut at Carnegie Hall but only crushes others. Coddling gives some the excuse to fail and others the chance to succeed.

You can take the babushka off the Jewish mother and dress her up in a pair of Seven jeans and Marc Jacobs sling-backs, but she's still going to expect a passel of grandkids.

In a perfect world I think we would microdose with LSD instead of giving teenagers Adderall. But I'd like to see it studied first.

For a couple of months there I was shrieking like a banshee.

Why is it that loving something provides such little protection from betrayal?

Let's all commit ourselves to the basic civility of minding our own business. Failing that, let's go back to a time when we were nasty and judgmental, but only behind one another's backs.

Leadership is about taking people from a good place to a better place where they would not regret to be.

If a nation blames other nations for its problems, most likely that nation will always be having problems.

Even death is going to die!

Otis Grows is a kid’s book that looks at adult problems. It playfully engages us all to consider: what’s tough, what’s inherent, but most of all, what’s possible.

To the very last, the desire to challenge oneself and understand more. And to the very last: doubt.

It's not unilateral when it's 16 to 3! Can't you count?

What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone.

Everyone has a bad hair day; the trick is not to have one on picture day.

I should have shut up when I went up there and talked to Carlton Fisk.

All I am and all I have is at the service of my country.