At the end of our lives, we will not be judged by the highest public office we attained in our lifetime, if that were true the current president (George W. Bush) would hold as much esteem as Franklin Roosevelt in our country, and Nelson Mandela in his. That cannot be the case. Rather, we will each be judged by the mark we've left on others.

I have less energy than I did when I was a younger parent, although I was never really a young parent.

By what you do, you teach your children how to respond to difficult information.

My father had gone to Vietnam.

I think I did marry a marvelous man.

My job as the mother of daughters is to make sure my children see that every opportunity is available to them.

You know, I once read a short story about how much you could tell about people from their shoes. You could tell where they had been, what they did, whether they were real walkers.