Because we believe ourselves to be better parents than our parents, we expect to produce better children than they produced.

Losing is the price we pay for living. It is also the source of much of our growth and gain.

I could be such a wonderful wife to another wife's husband.

There is a time to separate from our mother. But unless we are ready to separate-unless we are ready to leave her and be left-anything is better than separation.

Our mother gives us our earliest lessons in love- and its partner, hate. Our father-our "second other"-elaborates on them.

many of us are done with adolescence before we are done with adolescent love.

I went to sleep with gum in my mouth and now there's gum in my hair and when I got out of bed this morning I tripped on the skateboard and by mistake I dropped my sweater in the sink while the water was running and I could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.