My mother was very involved with Cesar Chavez's work on behalf of the migrant farm workers in California.

Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence.

I miss my mother very much, and I feel closest to her when I have dinner in the oven and the children are nearby playing and I'm reading a book or doing some little project.

My mother was very involved with Cesar Chavez's work on behalf of the migrant farm workers in California.

It can be demonstrated from history that no society has ever survived after its family life deteriorated.

Becoming a woman is an act partly of nature and partly of self-invention.

Mothers ... would do anything to steer their daughter the right way. It is frustrating beyond measure for them when a daughter screams, 'You don't understand, and you'll never understand!' The mother stamps her foot in aggravation, but in this case the daughter is right: the mother doesn't understand. She merely remembers, and memory is separate from experience.