A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up.

Cats invented self-esteem; there is not an insecure bone in their body.

If I had my life to live over I would have burned the pink candle sculpted like a rose before it melted in storage.

Maybe age is kinder to us than we think. With my bad eyes, I can't see how bad I look, and with my rotten memory, I have a good excuse for getting out of a lot of stuff.

The term 'working mother' is redundant.

You show me a boy who brings a snake home to his mother and I'll show you an orphan.

I've always felt there are two things a woman should never do after the age of thirty-five: stand in natural light and have a baby.