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

Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.

There is so much to teach, and the time goes so fast.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

The art of never making a mistake is crucial to motherhood. To be effective and to gain the respect she needs to function, a mother must have her children believe she has never engaged in sex, never made a bad decision, never caused her own mother a moment's anxiety, and was never a child.

I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food

The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms. . . and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.