Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.

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

My idea of 'roughing it' is when you have to have an extension for your electric blanket.

There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it.

In Russia, as I sat there day after day wearing headphones, listening to the interpreter struggle to make our words relevant, I wondered if we could establish meaningful rapport with a nation that had never seen raisins dance in dark glasses on TV...never had a garage sale.

No baby shall at any time be quartered in a house where there are no soft laps, no laughter, or no love.

I originate from a family where sauce is viewed as a refreshment.