This is important! But you have to stay absolutely cool. I may be completely off-base, and panicking prematurely." "I don't think so. I think you're panicking post-maturely. In fact, if you were panicking any later it would be practically posthumously. I've been panicking for days.

Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal.

Whether you function as welders or inspectors, the laws of physics are implacable lie-detectors. You may fool men. You will never fool the metal.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

I'm sorry. I can love you. I can grieve for you, or with you. I can share your pain. But I cannot judge you.

Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished.

It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.