If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles.

The ultra-right would have us believe that families are in trouble because of humanism, feminism, secular education, or sexual liberation, but the consensus of Americans is that what tears families apart is unemployment, inflation, and financial worries.

We mothers are learning to mark our mothering success by our daughters' lengthening flight.

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.

Other than life experience, nothing left a deeper imprint on my formative self than the movies.

If the Richter scale could measure human calamities, the loss of a child would register a ten.

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