Eventually we will learn that the loss of indivisible love is another of our necessary losses, that loving extends beyond the mother-child pair, that most of the love we receive in this world is love we will have to share--and that sharing begins at home, with our sibling rivals.

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

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

Not listening is probably the commonest unkindness of married life, and one that creates - more devastatingly than an eternity of forgotten birthdays and misguided Christmas gifts - an atmosphere of not loving and not caring.

Late birds get worms while early birds get tired.

Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.

I don't intend to stop showing a little cleavage. Nor do I intend to stop flashing a little thigh.