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

Marriage remains the most efficient engine of disenchantment yet invented.

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.

What the altar-bound of today end up buying from their numberless vendors is a dog's breakfast of bridal excess - part society wedding of the twenties, part Long Island Italian wedding of the fifties. It's The Philadelphia Story and The Wedding Singer served up together in one curious and costly buffet.

I used to teach at a private school, and the parents thought I loved their children. I did not love their children! I liked them well enough, but I was always delighted to see them go off for summer vacation.

I come from an immigrant culture. I'm only a couple of generations away from having been a servant girl myself.

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