I have made so many mistakes as a mother. But the one thing that I know I do is I make sure my children know how much I love them and they are absolutely secure in that.

Courage is impulsive; it is narcissism tempered with nihilism.

It's incredibly important to me that my children don't put anything in their bodies that they haven't tested first - that's how you end up dying.

You can take the babushka off the Jewish mother and dress her up in a pair of Seven jeans and Marc Jacobs sling-backs, but she's still going to expect a passel of grandkids.

My father is sure that Israel keeps the Holocaust from happening again. I worry that it might hasten its recurrence.

I've only ever been interested in drugs as therapeutic tools.

I believe that mothers should tell the truth, even - no, especially - when the truth is difficult. It's always easier, and in the short term can even feel right, to pretend everything is okay, and to encourage your children to do the same. But concealment leads to shame, and of all hurts shame is the most painful.