What I often say to people who are quick to say I’m not a feminist is if you think you’re not a feminist, give it all back.

Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.

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

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.

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

Illness is the proving ground of friendship.

If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.