In every union roles are assumed, some traditional, some not. My husband used to pay his own bills, I used to call my own repairman. But as marriages progress, you surrender areas of your own competence, often without even knowing it.

There's nothing I find quite as annoying as the phrase 'I told you so.'

As a parent, the only thing I am absolutely certain of is my own fallibility.

Why is it that loving something provides such little protection from betrayal?

The thing I believe in most in the world is my own fallibility, so I am willing to believe that I may be wrong too.

I have two daughters and I have done everything in my power to prevent them from assimilating, even being aware of, my idiocy about my weight.

I was born in Israel, to Canadian parents. My father immigrated in 1948, part of a wave of young men and women who came as pioneers, to fight for a Jewish homeland. Their motive was in large part a reaction to the Holocaust, and their slogan was 'Never Again.'