Mother is the first word that occurs to politicians and columnists and popes when they raise the question, 'Why isn't life turning out the way we want it?

A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium.

Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass.

When trouble comes no mother should have to plead guilty alone. The pediatricians, psychologists, therapists, goat herders, fathers, and peer groups should all be called to the bench as well. . . .

Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary by pass. After such a monumental assault on the heart, it takes years to amend all the habits and attitudes that led up to it.

It's an old trick now, God knows, but it works every time. At the very moment women start to expand their place in the world, scientific studies deliver compelling reasons for them to stay home.

Women aren't trying to do too much. Women have too much to do.

Families don't always realize that mother is exhausted, because mother is always exhausted. Exhausted is what looks normal.

A mother can legitimately be said to 'have a baby' - but in a civilization such as ours, she can never claim to own a teenager.

One life stamps and influences another, which in turn stamps and influences another, on and on, until the soul of human experience breathes on in generations we'll never meet.

If a woman is to know herself, then periods of solitude should be courted, planned, and embraced.

Wickedness is a wrong action.

When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down?

Friendship is one of the greatest luxuries of life.

Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.

I think it's really important to always own up to the things that you're not good at and the feelings that you have which are ugly.

I have a terror of things being nice and knowing what to expect. Making a photograph is a license to have experiences that I would not otherwise have.

The resentment of discipline of any kind will warp the whole life away from God's purpose.

We are seldom as limited as we think we are.

We are suffering from a believism that never has believed, and a receivism that never has received, and it leads to deceivism.