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

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

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

Work-family conflicts - the trade-offs of your money or your life, your job or your child - would not be forced upon women with such sanguine disregard if men experienced the same career stalls caused by the-buck-stops-here responsibility for children.

Boys don't make passes at female smart asses.

When the president of the United States flicks the switch to light up the Christmas tree on the White House lawn, that house ceases to be an American symbol; it becomes a Christian symbol.

When a family is free of abuse and oppression, it can be the place where we share our deepest secrets and stand the most exposed, a place where we learn to feel distinct without being better, - and sacrifice for others without losing ourselves.