Major fluctuations in weight gain and loss are detrimental to your health and embarrassing to explain to your friends and family.

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.

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.

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.

Be a loving soul.

If people knew you, they would love you." He sounds matter-of-fact.Josh, you break my heart. And you're a liar.Because you know me, you know me better than almost anybody, and you don't love me.

Affliction hardens those whom it does not soften.

A fact acquires its true and full value only through the idea which is developed from it.

I like being full, every day, with stuff that I have to do.

My house is about equidistant from the Young's brewery and the Fuller's brewery. This is no accident.

With the spirit of my administration, New York City is poised for dramatic change. The era of fear has had a long enough reign.

If you play a part that's been done before, on stage for instance, you feel like you're carrying a torch and staggering under the weight of it for a bit and then passing it on to somebody else.

If you have to ask if a clothing item is a dress or a top, it is always a top.

The teachers are everywhere. What is wanted is a learner.