I know how to set an irrigation tube, and I helped with the harvest. I learned the law of the harvest without even knowing I was learning it. On the farm, you learn early that you reap what you sow.

There is no greater name for a leader than mother or father. There is no leadership more important than parenthood.

You were born to lead as mothers and fathers, because nowhere is righteous leadership more crucial than in the family.

The Lord needed the strength of the women of this Church as the seeds of the Restoration were planted and nourished.

One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.

People with HIV are still stigmatized. The infection rates are going up. People are dying. The political response is appalling. The sadness of it, the waste.

When we lost Steve, the grief was understandable, but I wasn't prepared for how scary everything became - that fear factor of 'Now I'm doing this on my own.'

Well the themes for me were and remain sex and love and grief and death - the things that make us and undo us, create and destroy, how we breed and disappear and the emotional context that surrounds these events.