Between sisters, often, the child's cry never dies down. "Never leave me," it says; "do not abandon me."

we perceive silence where, in fact, there is a muffler.

What is haunting is that people fallen off the train threaten those who remain on board.

The illusion of companionship sits waiting in the television set. We keep our televisions on more than we watch them - an average of more than seven hours a day. For background. For company.

In becoming archaeologists of the world of our mothers, we are trying to retrieve the female past and to invent a future.

What we have in common is what keeps us apart.

I say you hurt me. You say I scorned you. We say we care. It begins. The conversation begins.