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

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

A toy has no gender and no idea of whether a girl or boy is playing with it.

Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.

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

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

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.