Friends seem to be like aspirin; we don't really know why they make a sick person feel better, but they do.

Lifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blue eyes or small feet.

I feel about mothers the way I feel about dimples: because I do not have one myself, I notice everyone who does.

Friends seem to be like aspirin; we don't really know why they make a sick person feel better, but they do.

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

America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.

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