I have become a housewife and there is no better job.

Don't be so familiar and so much into the details. Keep people dreaming. Close the window, and make them wonder.

My child was not only carried by me, but by the universe.

When you are surrounded by children, the child in you comes back.

My mother had been a grade-school teacher, and my father had an eighth-grade education.

The last name is pronounced Jill-en-hall. It's spelled with two l's, two a's. We have a song in my family; G-Y-Double L - EN - HAAL spells Gyllenhaal. It's a Swedish name. It's a family heirloom set to music.

I don't care what anyone says, but all children prefer their parents to be together.

One of the things that we're missing from our political dialogue right now is the idea that the United States is a home. It is more than an accounting sheet. It is more than the sum of its G.D.P., its total tax collections, or its total outlays. America is a family.