What happens to children and families today who sit around the television? They're watching made-up stories. It's not their experience and it's not truly shared. A human being must learn at a very young age how to connect to other human beings. Our technologies are driving us apart, only connecting us in terms of information, not in terms of emotions.

If you don't like my book, write your own.

Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to.

When God made man she was practicing.

When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives.

It doesn't matter to me. We're still cousins in our own way. Blood's just something old people talk about to make you feel bad.

I do think women avoid power. Power assumes responsibility and accountability, and I think many, many women want to have it both ways.