I grew up in this era where your parents' friends were all called aunt and uncle. And then I had an aunt and an aunt. We saw them on holidays and other times. We never talked about it, but I just understood that they were a couple.

[On her father, Ronald Reagan:] How do you argue with someone who states that the people who are sleeping on the grates of the streets of America 'are homeless by choice'?

Some people, when they die, leave so much life behind that we wonder how they did it.

And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope - nothing else.

The most ethical way to deal with an unethical situation would be to simply say: 'We did something wrong.' But nobody in a family like mine would ever respond like this.

Loss teaches you to figure things out as they come along.

I'm not the angry, rebellious child that I was. You can remain a child for a long time. I certainly did. I was a slow learner.