In the presence of grandparent and grandchild, past and future merge in the present.

It has been a woman's task throughout history to go on believing in life when there was almost no hope.

Women have an important contribution to make.

Blackberry winter, the time when the hoarforst lies on the blackberry blossoms; without this frost the berries will not set. It is the forerunner of a rich harvest.

There is no evidence that suggests women are naturally better at caring for children... with the fact of child-bearing out of the centre of attention, there is even more reason for treating girls first as human beings, then as women.

You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.

No country that permits firearms to be widely and randomly distributed among its population - especially firearms that are capable of wounding and killing human beings - can expect to escape violence, and a great deal of violence.