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

As the mother of a son, I do not accept that alienation from me is necessary for his discovery of himself. As a woman, I will not cooperate in demeaning womanly things so that he can be proud to be a man. I like to think the women in my son's future are counting on me.

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

Illness is the proving ground of friendship.

Apathy is the self-defense of the powerless.

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