Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.

Envy of the male role can come as much from an undervaluation of the role of wife and mother as from an overvaluation of the public aspects of achievement that have been reserved for men.

Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.

For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.

Much of the ill-tempered railing against women that has characterized the popular writing of the last two years is a half-heartedattempt to find a way back to a more balanced relationship between our biological selves and the world we have built. So women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too.

Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.

Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.