Parenthood, like death, is an event for which it is nearly impossible to be prepared. It brings you into a new relationship with the fact of your own existence, a relationship in which one may be rendered helpless.

I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.

Leaving things behind and starting again is a way of coping with difficulties. I learnt very early in my life that I was able to leave a place and still remain myself.

I absolutely don't dislike children - I would choose their company over adult company any time.

A neighbor is something that belongs to the stable world of home life, the thing that lives next door to you.

People are least aware of others when demonstrating their own power over them.

How can there be so many mothers in the world but so little sense of what it might be to become one?