Solitude is un-American.

What I discovered was is that it's rare to find a person that you feel very intimate with, and you can sleep with lots of people and not find what you're looking for.

Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women.

what storyteller is adequate to her story? The story carries us along, bottles on the tide, each with our secret mesage and the fervent hope that it does not turn out to be blank.

Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?

If you apologize for something that isn't your fault in the first place, you, in effect, confirm their belief that it is your fault.

Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life.