If there is anyone who's living the work of the New Testament, it's the nuns of the Catholic church and not the Catholic hierarchy..

Those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about jewelers..

the most sacred business of judges is not to ratify the will of the majority but to protect the minority from its tyranny..

Life is made up of moments, small pieces of glittering mica in a long stretch of gray cement. It would be wonderful if they came to us unsummoned, bu….

Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. We human beings are best understood one at a time..

America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonom….

I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make my marriage vows mean what they say. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh..

The truth about your own life is not always easy to accept, and sometimes hasn't even occurred to you..

If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only on….

The great motherhood friendships are the ones in which two women can admit [how difficult mothering is] quietly to each other, over cups of tea at a ….

Ignorance is death. A closed mind is a catafalque..

When children are small, parents should run their lives and not the other way around..

I'm very optimistic. I think if you would describe me, my pretty consistent affect is that I'm a pretty happy person..

For many years, despite what I thought were really punitive decisions about women in the church, I stayed and stayed and stayed. I kept saying to mys….

Wow, so much of the way I've transacted my life... so much of the results that I'm happy about are because of what Daddy did..

People ask me all the time if I'm from a family of writers. The literal short answer is no, but my father and his brothers and sisters and his mother….

Your kids are launched. You love your work but you understand how to place it in the panorama of the rest of your life. There's this line in the book….

All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading..

Frankly, I'm mainly telling the story to myself. Thinking about audience is too daunting, and worst case, invites you to homogenize, to soften the ha….

Testosterone does not have to be toxic..

I learned to live many years ago. Something really, really bad happened to me, something that changed my life in ways that, if I had my druthers, it ….