We mothers are learning to mark our mothering success by our daughters' lengthening flight.

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.

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.

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.

I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.

I think of rock 'n' roll as a combination of country blues and swing band music, not Chicago blues, and modern pop.

I have to go to the woods, and I have to meet the wolf, or else my life will never begin.

I don't have Steve. There is no having the Steve.

I love the challenge of playing characters forced on life-changing emotional journeys. To work on a project with Billy Crudup and Sam Rockwell is just a dream come true.

There are periods that we forget that in the pursuit of fruit, that if we just abide in Him, then fruitfulness is a guarantee.

I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.

A crowd is an elemental thing. A word, a glance, and a crowd becomes a mob.

Arsenal are the most beautiful club in England. At Man City and Chelsea, they will never have that class and style.

I think there are times when I can be a good thing.