sharing is the secret of civilization.

You must be the greatest mother in the world, but you must also, simultaneously, withdraw from your children's lives. You don't want to be the major force in their whole lives. You need to do the job adequately and as best you can, and then provide them with independence from you. You have to give them enough so that they won't need you anymore.

You know a relationship has deteriorated past the point of salvage when one person detests another's gestures.

sharing is the secret of civilization.

People Should not be protected from the world.. -It cripples them.

Like most good looking women, she was never sure of her beauty, and had to keep checking on it, to make sure it was still there.

I read Butterfly’s Child in one day, totally hooked. It is a captivating novel of love, guilt, sin, justice—and how all these things are, in time, transformed surprisingly and inevitably.