Illness is the proving ground of friendship.

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.

Don't waste water even if you were at a running stream

I built my entire career off of teen comedies. I was in 'Bring It On'.

You won't see how to do it until you see yourself doing it.

The best thing about becoming successful is that you get flowers all the time.

Let him not boast who puts his armor on as he who puts it off, the battle done.

The onset of bayonets in the hands of the valiant is irresistible.

The future stands in need of you in order to be born.

It is necessary to the success of flattery, that it be accommodated to particular circumstances or characters, and enter the heart on that side where the passions are ready to receive it.

You have to believe in love stories and prince charming and that eventually you'll find your own happily ever after.

Now I no longer live in our clear, rational world; I live in the ancient nightmare world, the world of square roots of minus one.