When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers - and men, their fathers - all it usually means is that they've decided to allow themselves the same kind of behavior.

Your children vividly remember every unkind thing you ever did to them, plus a few you really didn't.

Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.

Fields can lie fallow but we can't; we have less time.

The poor have the same basic pleasures as the rich, and the rich will always resent it.

True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.

When first we fall in love, we feel that we know all there is to know about life, and perhaps we are right.