I would make an anonymous call and say, this is someone who cares, do you know what kind of children you have?

There is incredible value in being of service to others. I think if many of the people in therapy offices were dragged out to put their finger in a dike, take up their place in a working line, they would be relieved of terrible burdens.

If I were to draw on a paper what gym does for me, I would make one dot and then I would erase it.

Well, most women are full to the brim, that's all...We are, most of us, ready to explode, especially when our children are small and we are so weary with the demands for love and attention and the kind of service that makes you feel you should be wearing a uniform with "Mommy" embroidered over the left breast, over the heart...If a stranger had come up to me and said, "Do you want to talk about it? I have time to listen," I think I might have burst into tears at the relief of it.

I would make an anonymous call and say, this is someone who cares, do you know what kind of children you have?

People say you should give until it hurts. I say you should give until it stops hurting. Know what I mean?

He wore a white shirt with the sleeves rolled up to the good place, and a heart-shaped leaf lay trapped in the hollow if his throat as though it were planned, though of course it was so perfect it couldn't have been planned.