Are you there God? It's me, Margaret.

She wondered if all the firsts in her life would go by so quickly, and be forgotten just as quickly.

My mother never talked about sex. I was on the Dr. Ruth [ Westheimer] show once - this is years and years and years ago - and it was her Mother's Day show. And I didn't know what we were going to talk about but what she decided we were going to talk about was female masturbation. My mother had invited all her girlfriends. And you know these were all women in their late seventy's maybe they were in their eighty's by then and then and they were horrified because Dr Ruth had a little she had a little chart up you know "female masturbation".

I have like two dreams a week that I have to write a paper that I'm late with or that I've gone back to high school and have to do that in addition to my current job.

The child from 9 to 12 interests me very much. And so, those were the years that I like to write about, when I'm writing.

How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives.

Sometimes I can't read my own handwriting. That's a problem!