A toy has no gender and no idea of whether a girl or boy is playing with it.

We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.

Why hope to live a long life if we're only going to fill it with self-absorption, body maintenance and image repair? When we die, do we want people to exclaim 'She looked ten years younger,' or do we want them to say 'She lived a great life'?

Before devising any blueprint that includes the assumption of Having It All, we need to ask ... Why do we need Everything?

I used to anticipate my childhood birthday parties as if each were an annual coronation. Like most kids, I loved sitting at the head of the table with a crown on my head.

Like many another romance, the romance of the family turns sour when the money runs out. If we really cared about families, we would not let 'born again' patriarchs send up moral abstractions as a smokescreen for the scandal of American family economics.

Control is a big issue when you're sick. It's the first thing you lose - other losses come later.