“Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart.”

“Just think of all those women on the Titanic who said, 'No thank you' to desert that night. And for what?!”

“The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.”

“All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them. ”

“As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.”

“In all honesty, men changed a few rules when they became what was referred to as househusbands. Bill didn't make beds, cook, dust, do laundry, windows or floors, or give birth. What he did do was pay bills, call people to fix the plumbing, handle the investments and taxes, volunteer big time, take papers to the garage, change license plates, get the cars serviced, and pick up the cleaning. If women had had that kind of schedule, who knows, we'd probably still be in the home.”

“I've exercised with women so thin, buzzards followed them to their cars.”