We've made hyper motherhood a measure of female success.

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

A finished person is a boring person.

There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother... Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.

After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger.

Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.

You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life ... Your entire life ... Not just the life of your mind, but the life of your heart. Not just your bank account, but your soul.

America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security.

Your heart has all the feelings, all the perception, and all the love that the universe ever had.

Are you afraid to die?'Cause it scares the hell outta me, And the end is all I can see, And it scares the hell outta me, That the end is all I can see.

Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.

The poor always ye have with you.

Arrogance is despised by God because no one has the right to feel superior to another when all are equally dependent on Him for everything.

every human heart beat is a universe of possibilities.

Unconditional love is all you have. You can't overdose on love, you never can. It's a beautiful thing.

On two legs, Mickey Mantle would have been the greatest ballplayer who ever lived.

Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present?

I'm not interested in playing the girl that's just there to make the guy, you know, give him a talking to.