People usually survive their illnesses, but the paper work eventually does them in. Filing a claim for insurance is terminal.

Motherhood isn't just a series of contractions; it's a state of mind. From the moment we know life is inside us, we feel a responsibility to protect and defend that human being.

Crocodiles have a smile I've seen on the face of every lawyer I've ever met.

There was a time when the respect and trust my children had for me would have made you sick to your stomach. They believed I could blow on a red traffic light and turn it green.

The bad times I can handle. It's the good times that drive me crazy. When is the other shoe going going to drop?

Someday, when my children are old enough to understand the logic that motivates a mother, I'll tell them: I loved you enough to bug you about where you were going, with whom and what time you would get home. ... I loved you enough to be silent and let you discover your friend was a creep. I loved you enough to make you return a Milky Way with a bite out of it to a drugstore and confess, 'I stole this.' ... But most of all I loved you enough to say no when you hated me for it. That was the hardest part of all.

I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of the hill.