I had always wanted to have children, so it caused me a lot of grief when I was younger, and I had supposed that gay people could not be parents.

A lot of people are very political when they are young, and then they outgrow it.

I was overpowered by being in the world, by other people and their lives I couldn’t lead, their jobs I couldn’t do - overpowered even by jobs I would never want or need to do.

The tragedies that are being brought about vastly outweigh the benefits that are being achieved.

I had known a couple of people who had died, but the loss of my mother contained something of the profoundly unknowable.

Kids with Down syndrome are, by and large, quite affectionate and relatively guileless, and frequently, the attachments to them grow and deepen. And the meaning that parents find in it grows and deepens.

I found it very comforting to see that there is no such thing as a completely normal family. People find their way through whatever the differences may be.