I don't consider my marriages as failures! It's idiotic to assume that because a marriage ends, it's failed.

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

I had no reason to doubt that brains were suitable for a woman.

In our contemporary world, no one can think or work with a single picture of what a family is. No one can fit all human behavior, all thought and feeling, into a single pattern.

Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.

The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.

Any town that doesn't have sidewalks doesn't love its children.