~I'm strict about manners. I think that kids have a horrible time with other people if they have bad manners.... The one thing you've got to be prepared to do as a parent is not to be liked from time to time.~

Once you're a mom, you've been split into two people. It's like Peter Pan and his shadow.

I firmly believe there are books whose greatness actually enable you to live.

Don't ever go on a diet. Just don't. Walk away. Diets are the spawn of Satan.

I`ve realized that in all the great stories, even if there`s a happily-ever-after ending, there`s something sad.

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

Children are much more understanding of the suddenness and arbitrariness of death than we are. The old fairy tales contain a lot of that, and we've stolen from them, just as they stole from Greek myth, which has that same mixture of pre-Christian chaos.