Growing up in the fifties and sixties, I can only remember knowing one child, ever, whose parents got a divorce, and hardly any whose mother "worked" at anything besides raising her children.

Imagine if you succeeded in making the world perfect for your children what a shock the rest of life would be for them.

I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story.

A good home must be made, not bought.

I was giving a speech one time, and the woman who introduced me said, 'Well, she used to be J. D. Salinger's girlfriend. I thought, 'God, is that all I've been?' I didn't want to be reduced to that.

I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves.

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