Not Only Did I Avoid Speaking Of

It's A Great Thing When A Man Knows How To Dance, She Said. When A Man Can Dance, The World Is His Oyster." Adele, Henry's Mother

It's Not Only Children Who Grow. Parents Do Too. As Much As We Watch To See What Our Children Do With Their Lives, They Are Watching Us To See What We Do With Ours. I Can't Tell My Children To Reach For The Sun. All I Can Do Is Reach For It, Myself.

When People Ask What I Write About, That's What I Tell Them: 'the Drama Of Human Relationships.' I'm Not Even Close To Running Out Of Material.

Growing Up In The Fifties And Sixties, I Can Only Remember Knowing One Child, Ever, Whose Parents Got A Divorce, And Hardly Any Whose Mother "worked" At Anything Besides Raising Her Children.

When I Was 12 Years Old, I Read Nancy Drew Mysteries And Biographies Of Madame Curie And Florence Nightingale And Books About Girls Who Love Horses Or Go To Nursing School. I Belonged To The Girl Scouts And Got A's In School And Rarely Disobeyed My Parents. I Still Kept A Collection Of Barbie Dolls In My Room, And I Almost Never Spoke To Boys.