And a great misunderstanding is that children think their parents are grown-up, and parents feel obliged to act as if they were.

Jane Austen may not be the best writer, but she certainly writes about the best people. And by that I mean people just like me.

The New Testament has had a really powerful effect on how I write and how I live my life.

I only really understand myself, what I'm really thinking and feelings, when I've talked it over with my circle of female friends. When days go by without that connection, I feel like a radio playing in an empty room.

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.'

Wow, so much of the way I've transacted my life... so much of the results that I'm happy about are because of what Daddy did.

My father expected his first child to be a boy, and when it didn't turn out that way he didn't let the fact get in the way of a good story.