If you don't understand how a woman could both love her sister dearly and want to wring her neck at the same time, then you were probably an only child.

A basic rule of baking is that, in general, it's almost impossible to make an inedible batch of brownies.

My sister taught me everything I really need to know, and she was only in sixth grade at the time.

desserts are the most crucial part of any meal.

More than Santa Claus, your sister knows when you've been bad and good.

Your sister is the only creature on earth who shares your heritage, history, environment, DNA, bone structure, and contempt for stupid Aunt Gertie.

I discovered, quite early in motherhood, that the longest and most painful deliveries occur when you give birth to stepchildren.

If sisters were free to express how they really feel, parents would hear this: "Give me all the attention and all the toys and send Rebecca to live with Grandma."

There are three very good reasons to travel: 1. See the world. 2. Meet new people. 3. Room service.

I wasn't very good about the pain. I started screaming for painkillers after the third contraction and didn't stop until my daughter was eating solid food.

I will not go out with a man who wears more jewelry than me, and I'll never, ever go to bed with a guy who calls me Babe. Other than that, however, I'm real flexible.

Men of few words are the best men."(3.2.41)

Pour God's love out of you in pitcher fulls, not thimbles.

I would have chosen any other than this for my prison. A rhinoceros is as ugly as a human being, and it too is going to die, but at least it never thinks that it is beautiful.

There can be no profit in the making or selling of things to be destroyed in war. Men may think that they have such profit, but in the end the profit will turn out to be a loss.

I took the stairs and felt like my childhood took the elevator.

Life is overwhelming. Life is not easy. Life is tough and you need something that really works and helps you actually, not promises to help you, then fail.

Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.

I fear it as little as to drink a cup of tea.

Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.

People in Iceland are complete chickens in the cold. You think, "Oh, you must not be cold because you're from Iceland," but we're never in the cold.