I like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together.

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

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

One of my great secrets was knowing I had the power to make her smile.

The other reason women wanted daughters was to keep their memories alive.

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.

The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.