Parenting is a negative thing. Keep your children from killing themselves, or anyone else, and hope for the best.

I remember thinking how often we look, but never see ... we listen, but never hear ... we exist, but never feel. We take our relationships for granted. A house is only a place. It has no life of its own. It needs human voices, activity and laughter to come alive.

When you leave them in the morning, they stick their nose in the door crack and stand there like a portrait until you turn the key eight hours later.

If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.

Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.

No self-respecting mother would run out of intimidations on the eve of a major holiday.

Housework, if you do it right, will kill you.