Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.

Letters remind us that when we write we can bring back the best of times, even make time stand still, if only for a few minutes.

I thought about all of us women and how we spend half our lives rebelling against our mothers and the next half rebelling against our daughters.

Your mother calls and says she hasn't seen you for a long time. The first year: You invite her for a week. You give her your room, and you both sleep on the lumpy studio couch. The fifth year: Your mother sleeps on the lumpy studio couch. The tenth year: You send the children to mother.

Repeat nothing - absolutely nothing - that is told you in confidence. There is no such thing as telling just one person.

Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.

Don't get so involved in the duties of your life and your children that you forget the pleasure. Remember why you had children.