Mothers remember a child's first words, and quote them in tones usually reserved for Byron.

As the mother of a son, I do not accept that alienation from me is necessary for his discovery of himself. As a woman, I will not cooperate in demeaning womanly things so that he can be proud to be a man. I like to think the women in my son's future are counting on me.

I didn't anticipate the primal quality of my pleasure, the raw physicality of it, the way my whole body leaps forward when I see my grandsons after a few days' absence.

When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.

If knowledge is power, clandestine knowledge is power squared; it can be withheld, exchanged, and leveraged.

Illness is the proving ground of friendship.

We can remind the world that all the dead on both sides have not settled our differences, so now it is time for the living to renounce violence as a means of solving this conflict.