I am so honored to be the vessel into which you pour this story of pain and strength.

If you want to understand any woman, you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully.

I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets.

I never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up.

There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.

Wherever you walk, I go with you. Selah.

I wanted to cry, but I realized that I was too old for that. I would be a woman soon and I would have to learn how to live with a divided heart.