The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction.

To observe people in conflict is a necessary part of a child's education. It helps him to understand and accept his own occasional hostilities and to realize that differing opinions need not imply an absence of love.

Opinions are like assholes, everybody's got one!

It is impossible for any woman to love her children twenty-four hours a day.

Education, like neurosis, begins at home.

To observe people in conflict is a necessary part of a child's education. It helps him to understand and accept his own occasional hostilities and to realize that differing opinions need not imply an absence of love.