If knowledge is power, clandestine knowledge is power squared; it can be withheld, exchanged, and leveraged.

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.

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.

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.

Girls' inner critics are starting to reveal themselves at a younger and younger age. And body image issues are an aspect of their lives which is causing them low self esteem and day-to-day suffering.

Pele was the most complete player I've ever seen.

Sometimes we are too polite with our suffering and allow it to dominate our life.

It is extremely important to know what you don't want to find.

With a sort of mental squint.

Success isn't something you chase. It's something you have to put forth the effort for constantly. Then maybe it'll come when you least expect it. Most people don't understand that.

You knew me. You knew that person, but you don't know the person I'm trying to become... You are not your past!

It is about your outlook towards life. You can either regret or rejoice.

Theres nothing that can beat the feeling of doing a movie or a TV show that makes everyone feel good.

The imagination is the vehicle of sensibility. Transported by the imagination, we attain life, life itself, which is absolute art.