Sometimes, having friends who were like family was a good thing, and sometimes, it was like having an endless supply of very nosy, very irritating siblings.
Raise your children to love and embrace others. Tell them they are beautiful; they may grow up to be stars one day, and "beautiful" will never mean as much in a magazine as it will coming from you.
There is no role in life that is more essential than that of motherhood.
Parenting isn't something you do. It's who you are. You are a mother. You are a father.
Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it.
True siblings are bound together by far more essential things than blood, while more times than many blood isn't thicker than water.
Never judge someone by their relatives.
To be in your children's memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life on their own terms, allow them to take the subway... let them be better people, let them believe more in themselves.
