Never accept an expert's opinion if it violates your own because the experts can change their minds.

Our humor turns our anger into a fine art.

Families don't always realize that mother is exhausted, because mother is always exhausted. Exhausted is what looks normal.

When trouble comes no mother should have to plead guilty alone. The pediatricians, psychologists, therapists, goat herders, fathers, and peer groups should all be called to the bench as well. . . .

A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium.

If a woman is to know herself, then periods of solitude should be courted, planned, and embraced.

The absolute dependence of a newborn infant inspired many things in me, but it did not activate any magical knowledge about what to do for the next twenty years.