You really can't say things that upset someone in print and expect them to be nice and leave you their money. That's just not reasonable.

Is it possible that my sons-in-law will do toilets? If we raise boys to know that diapers need to be changed and refrigerators need to be cleaned, there's hope for the next generation.

When I grew up, you needed to have straight hair. It's symbolic of needing to be like everyone else, needing to look like everyone else. And what that meant was looking like the dominant ruling class in America.

You have to have a certain kind of thickening of the hide. I mean, I'm not particularly worried about what other people think. If other people think that I was not the world's most perfect mother, they are completely right.

God is a God of Lovingkindness.

I think our material is our lives. That's part of being a modern writer, and we have to use it.

Reader, you forget that economics precedes religion; worship grew out of eating, not the other way around.