Every act of motherhood contains a dual intent, as the mother holds the child close and prepares it to move way from her, as she supports the child and stands it firmly on its own feet, and as she guards it against danger and sends it out across the yard, down by the stream, and across the traffic-crowded highway. Unless a mother can do both - gather her child close and turn her child out toward the world - she will fail in her purpose.

You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.

Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.

The assumption that men and woman are essentially alike in all respects, or even in the most important ones, is a damaging one, as damaging as the assumption that they are different in ways in which they aren't different, perhaps more so.

My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.

Through a grandmother's voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.

Britons put up with, Americans fix, Canadians cope