You need your freedom. You need to be able to do what you want to do as a journalist, as a person who's speaking for other women as you speak for yourself, and you make a choice. You have to be tough enough to take the consequences of that choice.

One of the things about parents and children is that there is no way that you go through this without there being mutual anger.

You can be creative and not addictive, or addictive and not creative. Most addicted people do not produce anything of remarkable note.

Self-pity is never useful. It tends to distort like a fun-house mirror.

It is hard to hold on to friendships when people move away to another state or to another world.

God is a God of Lovingkindness.

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.