[On home births:] In a house where there had been three people, there were now four, although no one had come in the door.

The word NO, carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knows how to say yes.

Every child, woman, and man should possess license to speak or sing in his or her true voice.

One of the sad realities of being a parent is that the same stuff you know is exciting, educational, and enriching in your child'slife is often messy, smelly and exhausting to deal with.

Although Salinger had long since cut me out of his life completely and made it plain that he had nothing but contempt for me, the thought of becoming the object of his wrath was more than I felt ready to take on.

If a man wishes to truly not be written about, he would do well not to write letters to 18-year-old girls, inviting them into his life.

It's a great thing when a man knows how to dance, she said. When a man can dance, the world is his oyster." Adele, Henry's Mother