It was morning through the high window I saw the pure bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy as if it had special plans and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion.

People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.

I wanted to have a personal life that I fully inhabited not because I am such a great mom but for me.

I want to make my music and be a happy woman a good wife a good mom and one day hopefully have a child of my own.

My mom is painfully sweet she's from Nebraska.

Thankfully I have my mom and a small group of close friends who are there for me 24/7 and whom I can trust and depend on.

My mother taught me to treat a lady respectfully.

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

A man is ethical only when life as such is sacred to him that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

Like all young men I set out to be a genius but mercifully laughter intervened.

There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak they are manners morals and medicine.

I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help rather than suffer.

I think there is a generation gap. I personally look forward to as our generation becomes the leaders you are gonna see a change and I think hopefully gay marriage will be a part of that country.

I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.

Marriage is an institution and you must be fully committed to it.

Men go into marriage with virtually no expectations whatsoever. Ten years later the men are delightfully surprised to find out that it's actually kind of nice and the women have sort of had to take a nose dive from what they thought it was going to be.

Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.

Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.

Love comes when manipulation stops when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and in a sense tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother and to become fully independent.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.