A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.

Widowers marry again because it makes their lives easier. Widows often don't, because it makes their lives harder. [p. 61]

There is no reason we should expect young children to enter the nocturnal darkness of sleep and dreams without help.

Women really are not supposed to be imaginative. That creativity of this kind is supposed to belong to men. You know, because women make babies. I find the double standards shocking.

Men generally do not see women as competition.

Being a mother is complicated because its not just a paternal culture making demands on you; its those internal demands and expectations that women have and are self-generated.

Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can be excrutiating under certain circumstances is fascinating.