I wish I had been a better mother and a more compassionate and understanding wife in both of my marriages.

I've elected to age gracefully.

Somewhere deep inside me was the will and determination not only to live, but to be a more present mother for my kids, instead of one who was emotionally unavailable because she was in so much pain, as my own mother was.

Being friends with anyone for 30 years is no easy task - people change, they drift apart, they move on.

I was reading The Bible a lot through my 20s, mostly the Old Testament, just because I was knocked out by the language and the stories. I felt that the God being talked about there, who was this insane, vindictive patriarch - it was kind of thrilling, and titillated something in me at the time.

I am not promising that God will give you everything you want. There are times when we want things that God knows would not be good for us.

The sin which is indulged to the greatest extent, which separates us from God and produces so many spiritual disorders, and which are contagious, is selfishness.

Liberals do not appear to address potential solutions with anything like the far right's aura of God-given self-confidence.